LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- A mother is left searching for answers after her daughter was killed in a car crash last month involving an Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioner.
The collision happened on Highway 165 at Caney Creek on March 23rd.
” I know my baby’s in Heaven,” say Schantel Walker, “but right now, this is hell for me.”
Her 24 year old daughter, Bianca Withers was killed in the head on crash.
According to the Arkansas State Police crash report, Bianca and AGFC Andrew Parker were traveling in opposite directions on Highway 165. The report says Bianca crossed left of center and crashed into Parker’s truck.
Walker still has questions.
“The trooper said ‘well she probably was on her phone’… and I was willing to let it go and say that’s what it was,” says Walker. “But when I got her phone… she wasn’t on her phone.”
She’s also concerned that Parker left the scene before ASP arrived.
“I can’t understand how someone could just leave the scene of an accident and just leave my baby setting there.”
In his statement to state police, Commissioner Parker says another Game and Fish Commissioner and his wife arrived on scene before or at the same time as EMTs. Parker said after he was evaluated he asked EMTs what they recommended he do.
Parker says he was told he could go by private vehicle to the hospital. He went to St. Vincent in Little Rock.
Walker wants answers or an acknowledgment of her loss.
“I know it was an accident,” says Walker. “He didn’t set out to have an accident that day. She didn’t either.”
