Mississippi dad, 2 kids killed in crash with garbage truck (Source: Live 5/File) By WMC Action News 5 Staff | March 5, 2021 at 6:22 PM CST - Updated March 5 at 10:44 PM
OXFORD, Miss. (WMC) - An Oxford, Mississippi man and his two children lost their lives this week in a crash involving a garbage truck.
Police responded to US 278 and F.D. Buddy East Parkway around 7:45 a.m. Thursday where the family’s Volkswagen Jetta collided with a Panola County garbage truck.
The Jetta’s driver, 40-year-old John Matthew Ellington, died at the scene. Paramedics took both children to the hospital in Oxford where his daughter died shortly after arriving.
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OXFORD ⢠A Lafayette County family was decimated 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 Childrenâs Hospital in critical condition. He died from his injuries overnight.
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