Several people injured in local wrecks
By Evan Carden SA Editor
 | | A dump truck overturned Monday morning at the intersection of Industrial Road and Highway 177, injuring the driver and spilling diesel fuel onto the road. (SA photos by Chris Sherman and Evan Carden) |
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Four people received injuries due to wrecks which occurred Monday and Tuesday in the Jackson area, keeping police and rescue personnel busy.
The first incident took place Monday around 9:36 a.m., when a 2005 Mack dump truck loaded with gravel, driven by Gary Paul Hallmann, 46, of Mobile, overturned while he was attempting to make a left-hand turn from Industrial Road onto J.W. Andrews Highway. Gravel covered the right southbound lane of the highway and diesel fuel leaked from one of the truck's tanks.
Jackson firefighters hurried to stop the diesel fuel from running into storm drains which empty into a nearby creek. The truck was owned by Hosea Weaver & Son Inc. of Mt. Vernon.
Hallmann received non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to Jackson Medical Center by JETS ambulance for treatment.
That same afternoon, around 4:06, a loaded log truck, owned by Jordan Timber and driven by Jimmy Jerome Goggins, 44, of Silas, overturned on Warren Street.
 | | The driver of this vehicle was injured when it collided with the rear of another vehicle, which was attempting to make a left-hand turn on Highway 43 north of Jackson. |
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Goggins was forced to take Warren Street because Industrial Road was closed. According to police reports, the truck driver met an automobile on the narrow street and attempted to move over for it to pass. The right tires of the truck slipped into the soft ditch between the road and the railroad tracks causing it to tip over. No one was injured, but a slow fuel leak from one of the truck's tanks caused some concern.
Four people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries following a wreck that occurred Tuesday around 5:15 p.m. on Highway 43 North near the former Trisha's Greenhouse.
The crash occurred when a 2006 Pontiac, driven by Amanda Parnell, 19, of Jackson rear-ended a 1995 Cadillac, driven by Willie Clyde Williams III, 25, of Coffeeville. Williams was attempting to make a lefthand turn from the southbound lane into a business located where the greenhouse was located. Both vehicles were severely damaged.
 | | Jason Thomas and other Jackson firefighters worked quickly in an attempt to prevent diesel fuel from the overturned dump truck from flowing into storm drains which feed a nearby creek. |
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Williams, Parnell and a passenger in Williams' vehicle, Frederick Williams, 30, were injured and transported by JETS ambulance to Jackson Medical Center for treatment.
 | | This log truck tipped over on Warren Street, Monday, when its driver attempted to make room for an oncoming automobile and got off the roadway into the soft ditch. The Jackson Fire Department was concerned about slow-leaking fuel from the truck. |
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