One Dead in Late Sunday Night Miller County Accident

One person is dead after a one-car accident late Sunday night on Blue Spring Drive a short distance north of Wedgewood Road in Miller County.

The highway patrol says the car driven by 61-year-old Jeffrey Ballew, of Kaiser, crossed over the center, traveled off the road and struck a utility pole before coming to rest in a field.

Ballew was not wearing a seat belt and pronounced dead at the scene.

It’s the 46^th traffic fatality for the highway patrol’s Troop-F this year.