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groundloop

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Tue Nov 1, 2016, 06:11 AM Nov 2016

Halloween Hayride Crash Kills at Least 3 in Chunky, Mississippi

Source: NBC News

Two children and one adult were killed and multiple others suffered "life-threatening" injuries when a truck plowed into a Halloween hayride in rural Mississippi, authorities told NBC News.

The victims were all on a trailer which was being towed by another vehicle near Chunky in Newton County, according to Capt. John Poulos of the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

Three helicopters and "multiple" ambulances were needed to transport the wounded to three area hospitals where they were being treated for "life-threatening" injuries, he said.

John Williamson, director of emergency management for Newton County, said there was a total of 10 victims in the crash — all of them on the trailer — of whom three were dead.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/halloween-hayride-crash-kills-least-3-chunky-mississippi-n676031

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Halloween Hayride Crash Kills at Least 3 in Chunky, Mississippi (Original Post) groundloop Nov 2016 OP
From reading the article above, it may be that the trailer wasn't seen by the truck. :-( secondwind Nov 2016 #1
The hayride should not have been done on a highway. alphafemale Nov 2016 #2
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