Two drivers killed in Nashville after a head-on car crash

Two men died in a two-vehicle crash on Thursday morning on U.S. 278 in Nashville, Arkansas.

According to Arkansas State Police, 45-year-old Jamal Staves, of Nashville was driving a 2012 Cadillac south on the highway at about 10:53 a.m. when his car crossed the centerline and struck head-on the northbound 2015 Chevrolet driven by Patrick Byrne, 68, of Dierks.

Staves was declared dead at the scene and Byrne died later at Howard County Memorial Hospital.

A female child in the Cadillac was injured in the crash. She was taken to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.