Post by Tomspy77 on Nov 2, 2016 14:46:28 GMT -6
Mississippi mom, daughters killed on Halloween hayride
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/01/mississippi-halloween-hayride/93101156/
CHUNKY, Miss. — U.S. 80 was littered Tuesday with the spoils of a night that was supposed to be fun after two children and their mother died on a Halloween hayride.
A pair of shoes lay among pieces of candy on the side of the road, apparently knocked from the feet of their owner when Kristina Shaver of Chunky, Miss.; her two daughters, 8-year-old Baylie and 2-year-old Brooke; and seven other people were struck from behind as they rode on a small utility trailer. A Ford F-150 pickup struck the trailer at about 7:45 p.m. CT Monday, after dark, said Sgt. Andy West of the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
The two-lane highway has no streetlights.
Shaver and her daughters, who were dressed in Halloween costumes, died at the scene, but all of the other victims — including three children, two teenagers and an adult woman — were transported to hospitals in Meridian, about 15 miles east, and Jackson, about 80 miles west. Immediately after the crash, authorities said all were in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
West did not know the age and gender of the seventh person injured.
The trailer, hooked up to a Jeep driven by Terry Smith, 58, of Chunky, was turning off U.S. 80 when the pickup that Chase Cook, 20, of Decatur, Miss., was driving rear-ended it, West said. Neither Cook nor Smith nor Smith's two passengers in the Jeep were injured.
"It would be inappropriate for us to speculate why the driver drove into the rear of that trailer, and we want to refrain from making any statements until the investigation is complete," West said.
Potential charges are still being reviewed, and no charges have been filed.
Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow Therese Apel on Twitter: @trex21
A pair of shoes lay among pieces of candy on the side of the road, apparently knocked from the feet of their owner when Kristina Shaver of Chunky, Miss.; her two daughters, 8-year-old Baylie and 2-year-old Brooke; and seven other people were struck from behind as they rode on a small utility trailer. A Ford F-150 pickup struck the trailer at about 7:45 p.m. CT Monday, after dark, said Sgt. Andy West of the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
The two-lane highway has no streetlights.
Shaver and her daughters, who were dressed in Halloween costumes, died at the scene, but all of the other victims — including three children, two teenagers and an adult woman — were transported to hospitals in Meridian, about 15 miles east, and Jackson, about 80 miles west. Immediately after the crash, authorities said all were in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
West did not know the age and gender of the seventh person injured.
The trailer, hooked up to a Jeep driven by Terry Smith, 58, of Chunky, was turning off U.S. 80 when the pickup that Chase Cook, 20, of Decatur, Miss., was driving rear-ended it, West said. Neither Cook nor Smith nor Smith's two passengers in the Jeep were injured.
"It would be inappropriate for us to speculate why the driver drove into the rear of that trailer, and we want to refrain from making any statements until the investigation is complete," West said.
Potential charges are still being reviewed, and no charges have been filed.
Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow Therese Apel on Twitter: @trex21
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/01/mississippi-halloween-hayride/93101156/