Archive for the ‘Mississippi Truck Accidents’ Category

BRANDON, Miss. — Three people were killed in a fiery accident on Thursday, June 21, after an 18 wheeler collided with a pick-up truck on the I-20 in Brandon, MS. The city of Brandon is located about 15 miles east of Jackson, MS.

A pickup truck with 3 occupants were burned beyond recognition in a fiery head-on semi truck crash on Interstate 20 in Brandon, MS on June 21, 2012.


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JACKSON, MS. — APAC-Tennessee Inc, a road-paving company, has filed an appeal with the Mississippi Supreme Court after a $17.2 million verdict was awarded to an injured teenager who spent eight months in a coma after a gravel truck plowed into the side of his pickup in 2006 at an intersection in Southhaven, Mississippi.

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JACKSON COUNTY, MS – A 18 wheeler truck driver traveling eastbound on the Interstate 10 on Thursday, July 14 crashed into a wooded area and overturned, according to Mississippi Highway Patrol Master Sgt. Johnny Poulos.

Workers remove 18 wheeler that crashed into the woods alongside Interstate 10 near Ocean Springs, MS on July 14, 2011. Photo credit: James Edward Bates/Sun Herald

The accident happened at about 11:30 a.m near mile marker 55 about a mile west of the Mississippi 57 exit. ... Read More

CALHOUN CITY, MS – Three people were killed when an 18 wheeler collided head on with a school bus loaded with high students from  Ackerman High School after a field trip to the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS.

Bus dangles perilously over Yalobusha River after fatal head-on collision with 18 wheeler.

Calhoun City is in Calhoun County, Mississippi in the northern part of the state about 146 miles northeast of Jackson. ... Read More

JACKSON, MS – A semi tractor trailer truck hauling a cargo of raw chicken pieces flipped over Saturday morning, November 20, on a highway in Hinds County, Mississippi. The truck accident occurred on Interstate 20 near the border line between the city of Clinton and the state capital of Jackson, MS. The accident area is in the central part of Mississippi, about 211 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee and about 185 miles north of New Orleans, Louisiana.

On Saturday morning an unidentified truck driver was driving a semi trailer truck through the state of Mississippi. The tractor trailer belonged to Mountaire Farms, an agricultural food processing company specializing in poultry. Mountaire Farms is based out of Millsboro, Delaware. The driver’s destination is unknown. ... Read More

JACKSON, MS – Morning commuter traffic was stalled for hours last Thursday after a jackknife truck accident in the state capital of Mississippi. The single truck accident happened on Interstate 55, between Woodrow Wilson Avenue and Lakeland Drive in Jackson, MS. The area is in the central section of the state, 209 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee and 187 miles north of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Emergency personnel from Jackson responded to the scene of the single truck collision. The truck driver was stabilized and then transported to nearby St. Dominic Hospital.

At around 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning, March 11th, a truck driver for G & C Trucking was headed southbound on Interstate 55, hauling a load of boxed frozen chickens. G & C Trucking is based out of Forest, MS. It was raining hard at the time, and the road surfaces were wet and slippery. ... Read More

HATTIESBURG, MS – Two men died from injuries they received in a multi-vehicle truck crash southeast of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in Forrest County. The truck accident happened Tuesday afternoon on U.S. 49 North near the Camp Shelby Military Training Site/Hagler AAF. The region is in the far south section of the state, 90 miles southeast of Jackson, MS and 110 miles northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Two men suffered fatal injuries in the truck accident and were pronounced dead

The first part of the truck accident happened at approximately 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, in the area between the north and south gates to Camp Shelby/Hagler AAF. The initial collision was between a Dodge Charger and a Honda Accord. After the impact, the Accord went off the highway on the right side of the road and the Charger ended up in the median that separated the two lanes of the highway.

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