Little Rock School District Superintendent Jermall Wright suffered only superficial injuries in a rollover crash Monday on Interstate 40 in North Little Rock, he said on Facebook.
Wright’s SUV flipped twice in the grassy interstate median after another driver hit his vehicle while he was driving around 70 mph, causing it to swipe two other vehicles, Wright wrote in a Monday night post.
“While flipping, I could literally see the cars on the interstate swerve, trying to avoid me, and all I could say was, ‘Lord, I don’t want to die today!'” Wright wrote.
Wright was able to crawl out of the SUV’s shattered sunroof with only a minor scrape on his knee and a small cut on his hand from broken glass, he wrote.
On Tuesday morning, Wright shared a video from J. Bryant Steele, who captured the collision on a dash camera.
“It’s scary to watch and further confirms that God’s hand was definitely protecting me,” Wright wrote. “It’s no way that I should be back at work today as if nothing happened.”
Steele’s video shows a black Jeep Cherokee pass his vehicle on the left shoulder, hitting the front of Steele’s vehicle and careening across lanes of traffic to strike Wright’s SUV. Steele, who said the wreck happened in the westbound lanes just before the Crystal Hill Road exit at 12:30 p.m., wrote that the driver in the Jeep then fled the scene.
On Tuesday afternoon, Arkansas State Police spokeswoman Cindy Murphy said she’d check and see if a report from the collision is available for release.
Wright wrote Monday that he was sore and uncomfortable after the crash, but that x-rays and CT scans showed he suffered no serious injury.
“Y’all, I walked out of the truck with my hands raised in awe of God’s protection,” Wright wrote. “No one, especially the paramedics and firefighters, could believe I was the driver of that truck.”
Check back for updates.
Grant Lancaster
Grant Lancaster covers crime, policing and breaking news for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A Little Rock native, his articles focus primarily on crime and law enforcement efforts in Pulaski County, although he reports on other parts of the state as well.
