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What Happened on I-40 Near Mayflower — and Why It Is Not Automatically “the Rear Driver’s Fault” If you are reading this page, you probably already know the basic facts of what happened on Interstate 40 near Mayflower, Faulkner County, Arkansas, on a Tuesday night at approximately 9:46 p.m. A 40-year-old man from Morrilton, Arkansas, was driving his 2021 Honda Accord west on I-40 near mile-marker 135 — a stretch of interstate between Little Rock and Conway that carries some of the heaviest transcontinental freight traffic in the state. Ahead of him, stopped in the roadway, was a 2017 Freightliner semi-truck. He did not stop in time. The collision killed him. A second commercial vehicle — a 2023 Freightliner — tried to avoid the crash and overturned on the shoulder. You are here because someone you love is gone, and you need to know what happens next. You may have already heard someone say “he rear-ended the truck” as if that ends the question. It does not. Not even close. A commercial tractor-trailer stopped in a live traffic lane on a dark interstate at night is one of the most dangerous conditions a driver can encounter — and federal law…