Daily Journal
An Olive Branch teenager died and another person was badly injured in a two-vehicle crash Friday night.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol was dispatched to Highway 6 in Pontotoc County at 10:51 p.m. in response to a head-on collision near Thaxton. According to MHP, it appeared that Luke C. Phillips, 19, of Olive Branch, was traveling east in the west-bound lanes of Highway 6 when his Nissan ELS collided head-on with a Mazda MPV driven by Lloyd Nellams, 43, of Hampton, Virginia.
Phillips died at the scene, while Nellams was airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. The accident remains under investigation.