Two Harrisburg Residents Die After Pickup Leaves Mills Road, Strikes Embankment and Overturns in Clear Weather, Arkansas State Police Say

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HARRISBURG, AR – Two people were killed Friday when a pickup truck left the roadway in Harrisburg, struck an embankment and overturned, according to an Arkansas State Police fatal crash report. The crash involved a single vehicle and happened on Mills Road near West Griffin Street.

State police identified the victims as Floyd Leonard Pretty, 56, and Gina Annette Moore, 60, both of Harrisburg. Both were in a 2000 GMC Sierra when it went off the road. Investigators said the truck overturned after hitting the embankment, and both occupants died at the scene.

State police identify the victims in the crash

Arkansas State Police said the dead were Floyd Leonard Pretty and Gina Annette Moore. Pretty was 56, and Moore was 60. Both were Harrisburg residents.

The fatal crash report did not describe any additional passengers or other vehicles involved. It also did not indicate whether either victim was driving or riding as a passenger. What is clear from the report is that the crash was confined to a single pickup truck and that both people inside were killed.

What happened on Mills Road near West Griffin Street

The report says the 2000 GMC Sierra was traveling on Mills Road when it left the roadway near West Griffin Street. After leaving the road, the truck struck an embankment and overturned.

That sequence of events is the central finding in the crash summary released by state police. No other contributing vehicle was listed, and the crash was described as single-vehicle. The location places the wreck in Harrisburg, where Mills Road meets the area near West Griffin Street.

Weather and road conditions were listed as clear and dry

State police reported that weather conditions were clear at the time of the crash. The roadway was also dry, according to the fatal crash report. Those conditions can matter in crash investigations because they help narrow what factors may have contributed.

Even with those conditions, the pickup still left the roadway and overturned. The report does not say why the truck departed the road. No further explanation was given in the information released by Arkansas State Police.

The fatal crash report is the main public account so far

The details made public about the wreck come from an Arkansas State Police fatal crash report. That report provides the victims’ names, ages, vehicle information and the basic sequence of the collision.

For now, the report leaves several questions unanswered. It does not state what caused the vehicle to leave the road, and it does not list any additional factors beyond the embankment strike and rollover. Authorities have not released any more information in the crash summary provided.

Local reaction centers on a two-person loss in Harrisburg

The crash adds a painful loss for Harrisburg, where both victims lived. A single-vehicle wreck can still carry devastating consequences, and this one took the lives of two longtime community members in one afternoon.

White River Now identified the incident as a Friday crash in Harrisburg, and Arkansas State Police later released the fatal crash report with the names of the victims. The public record now confirms only the basics: two people were in the truck, the truck overturned, and both died after the collision.

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