A mother and her two children are dead after their car crashed and landed upside down in a creek bed in northwestern Arkansas, officials say. Investigators believe the fatal car crash happened around 2 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, along a rural stretch of Interstate 40 in Franklin County, according to a state trooper’s report. Tyeasha Green, 44, of Conway, was driving west when her Nissan sedan left the roadway, entered the median and hit a bridge support, which sent the car airborne before it landed upside down in a creek.
Green and both of her kids were killed, officials said. Her son, CJ Clemons, played basketball for Morrilton High School, and her daughter, Nel’ Taiyah Green, was a cheerleader and second-grade student at Southwest Christian Academy, according to media reports. Green and her family were found dead two days after the crash, on Monday, KARK reported.
“I usually pick him up from practice,” Coach Keith Zackery said about CJ. “I went by the house and he didn’t answer.” Friends began to worry, and then were devastated by the news, KATV reported. “This was a great family,” Reggie Swinton, a longtime family friend, told the station. CJ was a gifted athlete with a “bright future,” Swinton said, and his mother and sister were just as special. “She was such a disciplinary mother but a loving mother and the little girl was sweet and quiet,” he told the station. “If you could ever see that smile, you would fall in love with that kid. It was just beautiful.” The family was driving to a cheerleading competition for Nel’ Taiyah, Cheer Bratz AR coach Arelia Lewis said, according to KARK.
“If anyone loved their children it was Tyeasha,” Lewis told the outlet. “She is a very good mom. She passed away doing what she loved, which was supporting her children.” Road and weather conditions were clear at the time of the crash, and investigators have not released a cause. Franklin County is about a 130-mile drive northwest from Little Rock.
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