2 Texas men killed in Pope County ATV crash

9:37 PM, Oct 21, 2012   |    comments
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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Two men from Texas are dead from injuries sustained when an all-terrain vehicle they were riding hit a tree in Pope County. 

Arkansas State Police say the ATV hit a tree when it veered off a Forrest Service road on Saturday. 

Pronounced dead at the scene were 44-year-old John Andrew Beard of Spring, Texas, and 48-year-old Jonathan Norvell West of Humble, Texas. 

The crash report says Beard was driving and failed to negotiate a leftward curve and went off the right side of the road.

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