GREEN FOREST, Ark. — A Purdue University student from Fishers was among three people killed in a car crash in Arkansas Wednesday.
The Arkansas Highway Patrol reports the crash happened on U.S. 62, east of the city of Green Forest in northern Arkansas.
Twenty-year-old Abigail Cox was one of five young people in a truck when police say an SUV crossed the center line, crashing into them. The couple in the SUV both died from their injuries.
The four other people in the truck, all ages 18 or 19, were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries. The couple who was killed was identified as Michael and Amy Weiss, of Cotter, Arkansas.
Cox was a 2021 graduate of Hamilton Southeastern High School. She was a junior in the school of business at Purdue.
According to KYTV in Springfield, Missouri, Cox was working as a counselor at Kanakuk, a summer camp in southern Missouri.
The camp shared the following statement with KYTV:
"We are in communication with the staff members’ families and are providing them with assistance and support in any way we can. No words can begin to express how deeply we grieve for the families of all those involved, and we are lifting them up in prayer for peace and comfort during this difficult time."