A 1984 Chevrolet Corvette hit a speed bump at high speed on Shady Pine Lane in Bryant on Wednesday evening, went airborne, and ended up overturned after crashing into a building. The driver, 65-year-old John Ralph Fullington of Alexander, died from his injuries, while a passenger was rushed to a Little Rock hospital.
According to a preliminary fatal crash summary filed by an Arkansas State Police trooper and reported by MySaline, the crash happened at approximately 5:37 p.m. on Nov. 11 along Shady Pine Lane in Saline County. The Corvette was traveling southbound when it struck the speed bump at a high rate of speed, sending it airborne. Troopers reported that weather conditions were clear and the roadway was dry at the time of the collision, according to the same report.
After the car came back down, it began yawing and ran off the roadway, striking a mound of dirt and rocks before overturning and crashing into a building, per the report detailed by MySaline. The report from state police did not identify which building the Corvette struck, according to FOX16.
Driver Killed, Passenger Hospitalized
Fullington died from injuries sustained in the collision, the preliminary summary states. A passenger in the Corvette was also injured and was transported by emergency medical personnel to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock for treatment, per the same account relayed by MySaline. As reported by KARK, a woman was injured; MySaline reported that she was from Bauxite.
The crash remains under investigation, and no further details about the vehicle's exact speed or the identity of the building it struck have been released in the available reporting.
