The highway patrol has now released details of a fatal accident that occurred early Friday afternoon in Miller County. The report indicates that it happened in the 500-block of highway-D when 59-year-old Robert Byrd, of Brumley, failed to yield and made a left turn into the path of a motorcycle being operated by 53-year-old Lester Hutcherson, of Kaiser. Hutcherson was pronounced dead at the scene. Byrd was not injured. It was, at least, the third wreck involving a fatality in the Lake Area over the past week.
