Two injured in roll-over accident

Emergency responders work with one patient injured in a single vehicle rollover accident on Arkansas Highway 72, approximately 4 1/2 miles east of Arkansas 59, on the morning of Feb. 12. Rescuers also work to free a second patient still inside the car.

Emergency responders work with one patient injured in a single vehicle rollover accident on Arkansas Highway 72, approximately 4 1/2 miles east of Arkansas 59, on the morning of Feb. 12. Rescuers also work to free a second patient still inside the car.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

— A Gravette couple was injured last Tuesday, Feb. 12, in a one-vehicle accident that occurred about four miles west of Gravette.

Jimmy Dale Farr, who lives at 104 Tenth St. S.E., and his wife Beverly were traveling west on Highway 72, en route home to Gravette when the vehicle, driven by Mr. Farr, left the road, hit the end of a culvert and flipped onto its top in a bar ditch. Both were trapped inside the heavily damaged vehicle.

Gravette emergency fire department and police department personnel responded to the accident which occurred shortly before 10:30 a.m.

Mrs. Farr was transported by the Gravette Fire Dept. EMS to Northwest Hospital in Bentonville. Mr. Farr was transported to a Springfield, Mo., hospital by air ambulance, according to the police report.

News, Pages 1 on 02/20/2013