Dr. Marc Stanley tends to Marivic L. Gaas who was injured in a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 20 near Wisconsin Avenue Monday morning. Three people were taken to ParkView Regional Medical Center after the morning wreck. (The Vicksburg Post/PAT SHANNAHAN)

[01/29/01] A Yazoo County man was killed and four other people were injured in two wrecks Monday morning, one on Interstate 20 and the other on Mississippi 3 just before 8 a.m.

Carl Brower of Yazoo City, driving about a mile and a half north of Redwood, died at the scene where his pickup collided with an 18-wheeler, said Rose Shaifer of the Vicksburg Fire Department.

Daniel Brown, 40, of Cary, driver of the 18-wheeler, was taken to ParkView Regional Medical Center for treatment.

A witness who lives near the scene heard the wreck and ran outside.

“It sounded like a clap of thunder,” the witness said. “That’s when we looked out and saw the 18-wheeler and the Dodge pickup.”

The wrecks occurred amid waves of rain and wind moving into the area as part of a line of storms expected to continue through the day.

Warren County Coroner John Thomason said the 18-wheeler was headed north when it apparently skidded or jackknifed in front of the southbound pickup driven by Brower.

The other wreck happened on Interstate 20 just west of the Wisconsin Avenue overpass and involved a maroon Honda Civic, a white Ford F250 pickup pulling a trailer carrying a tractor with a backhoe, a red Ford F150 pickup and a 1995 Chevy pickup.

Vicksburg Police Lt. David Beard said the Honda, driven by Marivic L. Gaas, 19, 508 Melrose Drive, entered I-20 from the Halls Ferry Road exit headed east and drove into the path of a Ford pickup driven by Richard D. Ingram, 114 Singing Hills Court. Gaas swerved to miss Ingram, lost control of her car, went across the median to the westbound lanes and overturned, Beard said. Ingram swerved, skidded and ended up facing west.

The Chevy pickup, driven by Paul Dever, 3270 Farr Road, Edwards, swerved to miss the Gaas car and was stuck by the Ford pickup towing the trailer driven by Calvin Ashley Jr., 2185 Glass Road, who then collided with Ingram’s truck.

Ambulances from the Vicksburg Fire Department took Gaas and Tyler Ingram, 15, and Jordan Ingram, 12, passengers in the Ingram truck to ParkView Regional Medical Center for treatment, Shaifer said.

A spokesman for ParkView said Brown, Gaas and the Ingrams were still in the emergency room undergoing treatment by mid morning.