A passenger in this Camaro was ejected and killed Sunday morning on I-55 near Oakland.
OAKLAND – A Memphis man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on I-55 early Sunday morning. Yalobusha County Coroner Ronnie Stark reported Dejuan Huntt, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was ejected from the vehicle around 2 a.m.
Huntt was a passenger in the Camaro that spun around multiple times before coming to rest. The wreck occurred on the north bound lane, approximately a half-mile north of the Oakland exit. Stark reported the vehicle did not overturn, and the force of the spinning vehicle apparently was strong enough to eject the victim.
Stark reported minutes after the fatal crash, the Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to an unrelated fatal crash on Hwy. 32 in Tallahatchie County. The Mississippi Highway Patrol reported a 2010 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by 50-year-old Robert C. Smith of Horn Lake was traveling east on Hwy. 32 when it left the roadway and hit a ditch at approximately 2:19 a.m. Smith received fatal injuries from the crash.
The wreck on I-55 is the second fatal crash in Yalobusha County this year. A Water Valley High School senior was killed on Jan. 14 after her vehicle struck a tree on Hwy. 32 in the Pine Valley community.
In 2023, there were three fatal crashes on I-55 in Yalobusha County. A truck driver from North Carolina was killed on Nov. 14 near Tillatoba, an Oxford man was killed on Nov. 5 near Oakland and a Memphis man was killed last January near the Enid exit.
