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.