PRAIRIE GROVE -- A recently released crash summary from the Prairie Grove Police Department sheds new light on a fatal collision that left a Fayetteville man dead last week.

Travis Samples, 38, of Fayetteville was driving a 2004 Yamaha motorcycle eastbound on U.S. 62 in Prairie Grove around 4:05 p.m. Thursday when the crash occurred, the summary states.

A westbound 2005 Jeep began to turn onto Apple Hill Road, and the front of the Jeep struck the motorcycle, according to the summary. Samples was then ejected from the Yamaha, the summary states.

The Prairie Grove Police Department posted on its Facebook page about the crash last week, stating that after the collision Samples was taken to Washington Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Neither the Facebook post nor the o

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