A Benton woman was killed and a man injured in a one-vehicle accident in Saline County Wednesday night.

According to a preliminary report, Lynette Lorene Earles, 60, died when the 2002 Chevrolet Suburban she was driving left the roadway on Highway 9 north of Nethercutt Road, struck a culvert and overturned several times.

Earles was pronounced dead at the scene and a passenger in the veh8icle, Brad Earnesteugeue Earles. 53, also of Benton was taken to a Little Rock hospital for what were described as “non-life threatening injuries.”
The accident was reported at 9:16 p.m. and the death was the 341st so far this year on the state’s highways.