Three people were injured in a multivehicle accident on Highway 9 north of Bellefontaine last week.
The accident occurred about 7:10 p.m. Feb. 21 when a car traveling northbound was turning into a residential driveway and another vehicle rear-ended it, according to the Walthall Fire Department. The WFD, in a social media post, gave this account of what followed:
The impact of the accident pushed one car off the road, leaving one disabled in the road. A vehicle traveling southbound topped a hill and hit the disabled vehicle in the road. At this time the driver of the vehicle that rear-ended the turning vehicle fled the scene on foot.
Two vehicles on Highway 9 were disabled head-on when a southbound 18-wheeler tanker truck topped the hill and hit the two cars in the roadway, sending them apart. The truck driver did not stop and left the scene of the accident, continuing south on Highway 9.
Three people were transported by ambulance with non-life- threatening injuries. An acquaintance of those injured wrote in a social media post later that night that all involved were “in a lot of pain but fair.”
Highway 9 was shut down around one hour. Units on scene were
Walthall Rescue 6-1,
Walthall Truck 6-1
, North Mississippi Medical Center-Eupora EMS (two ambulances),
Webster County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Highway Patrol, which had not responded as of publication deadline to a request to verify the accident details.
