from staff reports
A 38-year-old Ridgeland man was killed in a single vehicle accident on Thanksgiving Day in Meridian, said Lauderdale County Coroner Clayton Cobler.
The man and his sister were in a Ford pick-up traveling near the intersection of 42nd Avenue and 24th Street at about 5:40 p.m. Thursday when the truck left the road and struck a pecan tree, Cobler said.
The man was killed instantly and the sister was taken to a local hospital, he said.
