Vehicle collision results in one fatality

Published 11:48 am Monday, August 10, 2020

A Louisiana man died in a single vehicle collision in Pearl River County Saturday night.

Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to the collision, which occurred on Aug. 7 at 11:45 p.m. on Highway 43 North at George Wise Road, said Trooper Cal Robertson.

A 2013 Ford truck traveling northbound on Highway 43 left the roadway to the right and collided with a tree. The driver, 40-year-old David Jinkins II of Bogalusa, La., was pronounced on the scene. He was the only person in the vehicle.

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The cause of the accident is still under investigation, said Robertson.