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Two people died in two wrecks on Arkansas roads on Friday, according to preliminary reports from law enforcement.

Darius Hurst, 28, of Earle was killed in a single-vehicle accident in rural Crittenden County east of Marion, according to a state police report.

Hurst was headed east on U.S. 64 at 2:16 p.m. when he lost control of the 2002 Chevrolet he was driving and it left the roadway, rolling over, according to the report.

Larry Cox, 34, of Bay was killed when the 2002 Chevrolet he was driving was struck by a train near Brookland, according to a report from the Craighead County sheriff’s office.

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At about 5:43 p.m. Friday, Cox drove around other vehicles stopped at a railroad crossing on County Road 928 east of U.S. 49 and attempted to drive west through it, even though the crossing arms were down with their lights flashing and bells ringing, according to the report.

Officers investigating the two crashes reported that the weather was clear and the roads were dry at the time.



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Wally Hall is assistant managing sports editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock after an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he is a member and past president of the Football Writers Association of America, member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, past president and current executive committee and board member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has been awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year 10 times and has been inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and Arkansas Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.

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Ella McCarthy covers state politics and the state Supreme Court. Before joining the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, she covered Austin City Hall for the Austin American-Statesman, and before that, held a fellowship with ABC News in Washington, D.C., where she covered national politics. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, her work has been recognized by the Hearst Foundation, the Missouri Press Association and LION Publishers in the LION local journalism awards. She contributed to the Statesman’s coverage of a two-city shooting rampage that won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage.

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