An 18-year-old volunteer firefighter on his way to a fire died Sunday in Monroe County after his SUV ran off the road and hit a tree.
Jacob Anthony Carter, of Amory, was eastbound on McCullen Road in a 2002 Ford Explorer when his vehicle left the road and overturned at about noon Sunday, according to Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
Carter, who served with the Becker-Athens Volunteer Fire Department, was airlifted to the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo where he was pronounced dead of multiple trauma, Gurley said.
The Monroe County Sheriff”s Department is still investigating the wreck, he added.
Funeral arrangements for Carter will be handled by E. E. Pickle Funeral Home in Amory.
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