Car Cuts Off Semi With Fatal Results

Two people are dead after a semi truck carrying ammunition crashed on Interstate 40 near Ozark on Wednesday (Feb. 22), according to Franklin County Sheriff Anthony Boen. A husband and wife were in the semi when they crashed and fell off a bridge onto Loan Elm Road. According to Randy Boren with Franklin County EMS, the couple was from Missouri and had picked up their load containing 54,000 pounds of concussion and smoke grenades in Pine Bluff, and were en route to McAlester, Oklahoma. Eyewitnesses tell Sheriff Boen a car cut the semi off causing the driver to swerve to avoid the vehicle.