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WINONA, MS – Several students were injured, two critically, when a school bus with 20 children aboard collided with a logging truck on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Winona, MS.

Aftermath of a collision between a school bus accident with a logging truck in Winona, MS on Friday, December 2, 2011. Photo credit: Amanda Sexton Ferguson/The Winona Times

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GAUTIER, MS – A fatal semi truck accident has claimed the lives of five people and left several others injured after a fiery semi truck accident in Gautier, MS on August 31, 2011.

Five people die in fiery semi truck accident in Gautier, MS on August 31, 2011 on Interstate 10. Photo credit: Harlan Kirgan/Press-Register

Gautier is located in Jackson County, Mississippi in the southeastern corner of the state about 30 miles east of Gulfport, 18 miles southeast of Biloxi and about 5 miles northwest of Pascagoula. ... Read More

PITTSBORO, MS. – The investigation into a February 9 bus and 18 wheeler truck accident that occurred in Calhoun County remains ongoing.

PHOTO CREDIT: (Justin Lewis, WTVA)

Gary Bailey, 54, was driving an 18-wheeler when it collided with a school bus on Highway 8 just south of Calhoun City. Steven Moss, 37, was driving the school bus carrying students from Ackerman High School returning from a trip to Ole Miss. ... Read More

GULFPORT, MS. – Willie Cruso IV, who was involved in a fatal hit and run on March 20, waived the right Wednesday, May 25, to hear evidence in that incident, and may face an additional charge of leaving the scene of an accident causing a permanent disability.

Willie Cruso IV Cruso, 41, is accused of fleeing an accident that killed Sara Dellinger White, a 22-year-old working mother and college student from Saucier. Dellinger was a passenger on a motorcycle ridden by her husband, Mike White, 23, who was seriously injured when a the pickup truck Cruso was driving hit them on Mississippi 67 at Big John Road. The intersection is near D’Iberville High School. ... Read More

GULFPORT, MS — The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the case of a Louisiana man who apparently fell from the back of a pickup truck early Sunday morning on May 15 and was killed. The Mississippi Highway Patrol wants to hear from anyone who witnessed the accident. ... Read More

CALHOUN COUNTY, MS – Three people were killed and fourteen others injured Tuesday afternoon, February 8, in a truck accident on a highway in Calhoun County, Mississippi. One of the victims was the truck driver who lost control of his tractor trailer on Mississippi State Highway 8 and crashed into two school buses. The truck accident area is in the north central part of the state, about 125 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee and about 134 miles northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

On Tuesday a group of senior class students from Ackerman High School in Choctaw County, MS was returning from a career day visit to the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford. The group was traveling in two school buses, driving south on MS State Route 9. A total of 62 students and several adults were on the two school buses when the truck accident occurred. ... Read More

SEMINARY, MS – A truck driver for Sanderson Farms was seriously injured in a rollover truck accident on Monday March 22nd in Covington County, Mississippi. The truck collision happened near the town of Seminary close to the intersection of Mississippi 590 and US 49. The accident area is north of Hattiesburg in the southeast section of the state, 123 miles northeast of Mobile, Alabama and 130 miles north of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Local firefighters, Baptist Life Flight EMTs, and Coventry County Emergency personnel responded to the scene of the truck accident. It took emergency workers about 5 hours to remove the Sanderson Farms truck driver who was trapped in the cab of his 18 wheeler tractor trailer.

At approximately 7:30 a.m. on March 22nd, 38 year old Johnny Felts of Hattiesburg, MS, a truck driver for Sanderson Farms, was driving a company semi tractor trailer truck filled with grain south on US 49 in Covington County. Sanderson Farms is based in Laurel, Mississippi. ... Read More