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Woman, 76, Killed and Two Grove Hill Men Hurt in Oct. 25 Crash in Jefferson Davis County, Miss.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol said a Prentiss woman died and two Grove Hill men were injured in a two-vehicle crash at Highway 184 and U.S. 84 in Jefferson Davis County.

Two damaged SUVs on a rural two-lane road after a collision with a police car in the background
Illustration: two damaged SUVs on a rural two-lane road after a collision with a police car in the background.

GROVE HILL, Ala. — Two Grove Hill men were injured and a Mississippi woman died in a two-vehicle crash Oct. 25 in Jefferson Davis County, Miss., according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

What troopers reported

Gloria J. Herring, 76, of Prentiss, Miss., died at a local hospital. She was in a 2014 Jeep traveling north on Mississippi Highway 184 when it collided with a 2012 GMC Terrain traveling east at the intersection with U.S. Highway 84, the Highway Patrol said.

The Terrain was driven by Willie J. Harris Jr., 38, of Grove Hill. A passenger, Arthur Neal Yelder III, 28, also of Grove Hill, was injured as well. The patrol did not say in the information available how seriously either man was hurt.

The crash happened about 5:30 p.m. The cause remains under investigation, according to the Highway Patrol. No charges have been reported.

Prentiss is in Jefferson Davis County, in south-central Mississippi.

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