HOT SPRINGS -- A Garland County sheriff's deputy was injured in a four-car collision on Arkansas 7 on Tuesday, authorities said.
A logging truck was traveling south on Arkansas 7 north toward the roundabout at 11 a.m. when it failed to stop in time and struck a the deputy's vehicle in the rear.
The momentum from the impact resulted in the deputy's vehicle hitting a white Hyundai, which then ran into a commercial vehicle, which sustained minor damage.
"The driver of the white vehicle, a male subject, was taken to the hospital. Our deputy was taken to the hospital. Both have sustained injuries, what those are right now we don't know, but they are both conscious and being treated on the way to the hospital," sheriff's office Capt. Scotty Dodd said at the scene.
Pafford EMS transported both drivers.
"It appears the logging truck was at fault," Dodd said. "(Arkansas) State Police are investigating the accident. Due to the skid marks and the impact on the cars, that's an assumption on my part right now."
According to Dodd, the deputy injured in the collision was headed to an off-duty job at the time of the wreck. State troopers at the scene declined to comment.