 In this image made from video, people gather around a pickup truck on a flatbed truck at the scene of an accident on U.S. Highway 80 in Chunky, Miss., late Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. (AP) — A vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities said. UPDATE 10/31/16 10:55 p.m.: Newton County Coroner Danny Shoemaker confirms three people were killed in the accident, including two children and one adult. They were all related, but their names have not been released at this time. The coroner said two people died at the scene and the other died waiting for a hospital helicopter. Highway Patrol says multiple people were killed and several people were injured in that accident involving a hayride and another vehicle. We have no word yet on how many other injuries there are. At about 7:45 p.m. Central Time, a Ford F-150 driving down Highway 80 rear-ended the trailer during the hayride, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. Details about the number of people injured were not immediately available. One of the vehicles was pulling a trailer, which was loaded with several occupants.  In Chunky, Miss., a small town of about 325 tucked into a crook of the Chunky River outside Meridian, several adults and children were enjoying a classic Halloween tradition: a hayride in the crisp October air. These are good people, and our hearts go out to them," said West.
– A vehicle struck a hay-lined flatbed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities say. Two children and one adult—all related to each other—were killed in the crash, Newton County Coroner Danny Shoemaker said late Monday. Their names and ages were not immediately released. "It was just chaos," Shoemaker tells the AP, describing the scene of the wreck on US Highway 80 in Chunky, a town near the Alabama border, about 80 miles east of Jackson. Halloween hayrides are a tradition in Chunky, which has a population of around 325, reports the Washington Post. "It's a small community. This is a bad thing to happen anywhere, but when it's local, it really hits home," Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Andy West tells WTOK. "These are good people, and our hearts go out to them," he says. West says a Ford F-150 pickup truck apparently rear-ended the trailer, which was being pulled by another vehicle, while both vehicles were traveling westbound.