1 dead in Monroe County wreck Shannon, Mississippi
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1 Dead in Monroe County wreck
MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) - One person is dead after a collision
on Highway 45 Alternate in Monroe County near the Lee County line.
According to Master Sgt. Criss Turnipseed with the Mississippi Highway
Patrol, the collision happened Monday morning sometime near 8:40.
This is near Pine Grove Road south of Shannon.
Troopers say the collision involved a car and a farm tractor.
Turnipseed says the car was traveling south on the highway when it rear
ended a southbound farm tractor. The car then caught fire.
He says the driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene by
Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley. The driver was the only person in the vehicle.
The driver of the tractor was taken to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo with moderate injuries.
I was on my truck route when traffic backed up behind this. As I drove past it, I saw the burnt remains of a car, a tractor with its rear left wheels torn off from the impact, which rested in the ditch about 200 feet away at the edge of the forest, and plenty of state troopers.
The driver was 26, I assume because he rear ended such a large vehicle in broad daylight he was texting while driving. I hate to see people so young die because of such mistakes.
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