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Officials with the Mississippi State Fair say that a child was injured this past weekend after falling from a ski-lift type amusement known as the “Skyride.” According to officials, the accident happened around 11 p.m. when the seven-year-old boy fell more than 30 feet from the ride. Emergency responders say the child was taken by ambulance to the University Medical…
An Amtrak train in Holmes County, MS derailed last month after crashing into a tractor-trailer. The serous accident led to injuries to six people, including four passengers and two crewmembers. Police say the train derailment involved an Amtrak train bound of New Orleans, the Spirit of New Orleans. The train was carrying 152 passengers as well as 11 crewmembers at…
Police are saying that a deadly accident in suburban Memphis was caused by a drunk driver heading the wrong way down a busy section of I-240. The wrong-way driver then caused a head-on collision that left two teenage cousins, Demetria Allen and Chastity Wilson, as well as the wrong-way driver, dead. Police say they have finally concluded an investigation that…
An 11-month-old girl miraculously survived an accident with a train and has now been released from the hospital following the weekend collision. Though the girl managed to survive the crash, the driver, the girl’s 64-year-old grandmother, tragically did not. According to authorities in Pass Christian, Mississippi, an SUV driven by the girl’s grandmother was hit by a train after trying…
Police officers in Lowndes County, Mississippi say that a 71-year-old man has been hospitalized after an SUV crashed into his motorcycle early Tuesday morning. Reports indicate that the accident happened a little before 8 in the morning on Mississippi Highway 50 near Holly Hills Road. Mississippi Highway Patrol officials say that a Chevy Trail Blazer driven by James Hendershaw collided…
Police in Rankin County, Mississippi say that the driver who is believed to be responsible for a serious collision that left five children injured was not only impaired at the time of the accident, but is also a convicted sex offender who was recently released from jail. Authorities say that several of the injured children and one adult remain in…
Police in Rankin County, say that one person has died and another person is in the hospital in critical condition after a terrible head-on accident with a Rankin County school bus. Authorities say they are grateful that there were no children on-board the bus during the crash, which took place just before 5 p.m. last week after the bus had…
A recent article out of Pontotoc, Mississippi discussed an accident late last month which left two people injured, one critically. The accident was not your run of the mill crash involving two passenger vehicles. This one instead involved a Nissan Altima and a horse and buggy. According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the strange accident took place at around 3:30…
A terrible skydiving accident in southern Mississippi left a skydiving instructor dead and his student critically injured. The accident, which happened Saturday morning, resulted in the two men crash landing in the woods in rural Lumberton, MS. According to a statement from authorities in Lamar County, the 56-year-old instructor, James Horak, died after setting off with a group of divers…
Police say that late last week a pedestrian was killed and a paramedic was seriously injured after a drunk driver crashed into them with his truck at the scene of an earlier accident. Police say the first accident occurred at 8:30 in the evening near the intersection of Bullard Street and Gymnasium Drive. EMTs responded to the first accident and…