OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – An Ethel man died in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday morning on Highway 12.
Marvin Graham, 54, was driving east on Highway 12 near Smith Road at about 6 a.m. when a second vehicle driving west swerved across the road and crashed into Graham’s, Mississippi Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Trooper Bryant Flake told The Dispatch.
Graham was pronounced dead on the scene.
The second driver involved in the accident was airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo with “serious” but non-life-threatening injuries, Flake said.
Flake said MHP investigators are still reconstructing the accident site and waiting to interview the other injured driver to determine the cause of the crash.
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