Person injured in Butler County crash

BUTLER COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - One person was injured in a crash in Butler County.

According to the crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 4:41 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9 about two miles east of Poplar Bluff on County Road 565.

Wallace Hastings, 33, of Cape Girardeau and Ashley Hicks, 32, of Poplar Bluff were traveling northbound in a 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche.

The report said the vehicle ran off the right side of the road and struck a culvert.

Hicks was taken by air evac to SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital with serious injuries.

Hastings was not injured in the crash, according to the report.