A family with Choctaw County ties lost three members of their family Thursday morning when a father and two small children were killed in wreck between a Panola County garbage truck and a passenger car in east Oxford.
Oxford police responded to US Highway 278 and F.D. Buddy East Parkway around 7:45 a.m. March 4 for a wreck between a 2014 Volkswagen Jetta and a Panola County 2020 Mack garbage truck.
The driver of the Volkswagen, John Matthew Ellington, 40, of Oxford, was pronounced dead at the scene. His daughter, first-grader Evangeline Ellington, was transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi where she passed away shortly after arriving. The son, Lincoln Ellington was taken to the hospital in Oxford and later flown to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in critical condition. He died from his injuries overnight.
The driver of the garbage truck was transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Oxford community is organizing benefits for Jessica Ellington, who lost her husband and children in the wreck. The efforts are being headed by the family’s church. Donations can be made to northoxford.churchcenter.com/giving.
See full obituaries on page 3 of today’s edition
