One dead; two injured in Sunday afternoon accident
Published 1:23 pm Monday, April 25, 2022
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—A Toyota sedan driven by Milton Fletcher of Prentiss ran off the road to avoid a head-on collision on Highway 13 North Sunday afternoon.
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—James Sands Sr. was killed in the accident. Two others were transported with serious injuries.
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—A Toyota sedan driven by Milton Fletcher of Prentiss ran off the road to avoid a head-on collision on Highway 13 North Sunday afternoon.
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—The vehicle hit this culvert going backwards before landing on its roof.
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—Rescue 7 landed on Highway 13 North just before Two Mile Road to transport accident victim Douglas Bryant MacArthur to UMMC in Jackson.
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—Rescue 7 landed on Highway 13 North just before Two Mile Road to transport accident victim Douglas Bryant MacArthur to UMMC in Jackson.
Holley Cochran / The Prentiss Headlight—Rescue 7 landed on Highway 13 North just before Two Mile Road to transport accident victim Douglas Bryant MacArthur to UMMC in Jackson.
A one-car accident on Highway 13 North just outside of Prentiss left one dead and two seriously injured late Sunday afternoon. According to a witness at the scene, a maroon Grand Marquis or Crown Victoria was headed south and passed a car on a hill and double yellow lines. A Toyota sedan driven by Milton Fletcher, of Magnolia Drive in Prentiss, was headed north and went off the roadway to avoid a head-on collision. The car the spun around and hit a driveway culvert backwards before landing on its roof. Killed in the accident was passenger James Sands Sr. of Hartzog Magee Road in Prentiss. Douglas Bryant MacAuthur, of Mt. Zion Road in Prentiss, was also injured and airlifted from the scene and transported to UMMC in Jackson by Rescue 7. Fletcher was transported by ambulance to Jefferson Davis Community Hospital and later transferred to Forrest General Hospital for surgery. Authorities say he is paralyzed from the waist down. If you have any information regarding this accident or of the vehicle in question, please contact the Jefferson Davis County Sheriff’s Department at 601-792-5169.
