CARTERSVILLE, Georgia — On the evening before she and her family had planned to return overseas, Kyra Lynn Karr, a Southern Baptist missionary to Italy, was killed in a traffic accident Aug. 13.
News reports indicate a tractor-trailer driver exited his vehicle to conduct a safety inspection but the safety brake was not engaged and the truck began to roll.
The vehicle hit the pickup in which Karr was traveling, crushing it against the highway guardrail on U.S. 41 in Bartow County, Georgia. Karr, 30, died at the scene. Her husband, Reid, and their two youngest children were transported to nearby hospitals where they were treated and released. Their oldest child was not with them at the time.
The tractor-trailer driver, Ivan Delgado, 52, of Rome, New York, was arrested and charged with DUI, police said.
The Karrs had been in the U.S. since mid-June and were returning home after a family outing to prepare to fly back to Italy the next day to begin their third term of service.
They were appointed as International Mission Board missionaries in 2009 and have been serving in Rome.
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