A screenshot from a video exhibits a fiery crash on I-40 Wednesday. Video courtesy of Aneisha Rush LeMonierA Franklin County man has been arrested Wednesday by the Arkansas State Police over a deadly tanker-truck crash Wednesday morning on Interstate 40 in Franklin County.
Douglas Darr, 43, of Ozark, is charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving dying or private damage. Darr additionally was charged with careless and prohibited driving, no proof of legal responsibility insurance coverage and failure to register a car. He’s being held on the Franklin County jail.
The tanker driver, James Rotenbury, 59, of Russellville was compelled to swerve to keep away from a automobile that had pulled out in entrance of him as he traveled east on I-40, in keeping with a state police report.
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The driving force was killed when the truck rolled and the contents of the tanker ignited and the fireplace unfold from the truck and trailer throughout the roadway and into the median, the report mentioned.
“Till the investigating troopers assigned to the crash can look at the placement the place the stays had been discovered, verify the identification and interview the proprietor of the industrial provider, it could be untimely to substantiate whether or not or not this individual was the motive force,” mentioned spokesman Invoice Sadler.
After the crash, east and westbound lanes had been closed for a number of hours and site visitors was redirected to Arkansas 64.
A report from the state Division of Transportation confirmed that the lanes had been cleared as of three:04 p.m.
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