2 killed, 2 injured in vehicle crashes.

Two people were killed in two separate crashes on Arkansas roads last week, Arkansas State Police reported Saturday.

Ramon Parish, 22, of Yellville was eastbound on a 2005 Kawasaki motorcycle Thursday morning on the U.S. 62 bypass around Flippin in Marion County, according to a state police report. He was behind a 2014 Dodge driven by Colton Edwards, 19, of Everton. The Dodge was turning left to head north at 7:40 a.m. when the motorcycle hit the left rear side of the trailer the Dodge was pulling.

Parish was taken to Mercy Hospital Springfield in Missouri, where he later died. State police said Edwards was not injured.

A three-vehicle crash Friday killed a Sheridan woman and injured two men on U.S. 270 east of Sheridan in Grant County, according to a state police report.

Ruby Smothers, 57, was driving a 2007 Buick at 6:20 a.m. Friday. State police said the Buick was westbound in an eastbound lane of U.S. 270, and two pickups — a 2011 Dodge and a 2003 Ford — were eastbound. Police said the Dodge swerved to avoid a crash but hit the Buick headon. The Ford then hit the back of the Dodge. The report did not specify which lanes the vehicles were in when the crash occurred.

Grant County Coroner Michael Walton pronounced Smothers dead at the scene about an hour after the crash. Police said the drivers of the Dodge and Ford — Jeremy Morris, 34, of Sheridan and Kevin Kidder, 45, of Malvern, respectively — were both injured, but the men’s conditions were not listed in the report.

At the time of both crashes, the weather was clear and roads were dry.