A left turn at a Greene County intersection turned deadly Monday evening, killing two Paragould residents and sending a Blytheville woman to the hospital. Arkansas State Police say the two-vehicle crash happened at 6:11 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. Highway 412 and Arkansas Highway 139.
Pamela S. Bryant, 64, of Paragould, was driving a 2006 Chevrolet and began turning left onto Highway 139 when she pulled into the path of a 2018 Hyundai driven by Danielle N. Merritt, 31, of Blytheville, according to a preliminary fatal crash report cited by KAIT. Merritt’s vehicle struck Bryant’s Chevrolet, according to the report.
Bryant and her passenger, Billy J. Adams, 47, also of Paragould, died in the crash. Merritt was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital for treatment of her injuries, the station’s report states. Arkansas State Police said two people died and another was injured in the crash, and the crash details were attributed to a preliminary report from Cpl. Aaron Morphis.
State Records Confirm the Toll
The Arkansas State Police fatal-crash listing separately logs the incident, with entries numbered 416 and 417 tied to a crash at U.S. Highway 412 and State Highway 139 on Nov. 9, 2026, according to the Arkansas Department of Public Safety fatal-crash summaries.
The intersection sits along a stretch of Highway 412 in Greene County that has seen other serious wrecks in recent years. A two-vehicle crash on Highway 412 East near County Road 930 killed both drivers in 2024, after a preliminary crash summary said a westbound Ford Explorer crossed into the eastbound lane and collided head-on with an eastbound Dodge Durango, as reported by NEA Report.
A History of Serious Wrecks Along the Corridor
In August 2023, a crash on Highway 412 just west of Mrs. Addie’s Restaurant shut down lanes on the highway, with Greene County Sheriff Brad Snyder saying multiple medical helicopters were called to the scene; all lanes later reopened, as noted by KAIT.
Elsewhere on Highway 412, the Arkansas Department of Transportation previously added LED lights to stop signs at the highway’s bypass intersection with Highway 358 in Greene County to make them more noticeable, and changed lane striping there to add a slight curve for a better driver sightline. ARDOT said it would monitor whether those changes affected crash numbers at that spot, though those improvements were made at a different intersection than the one where Monday’s crash occurred.
