One Killed, Four Hospitalized in Tupelo Wreck

TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) — A Florida woman is dead, and four others are recovering in the hospital, after a serious wreck in Tupelo Sunday afternoon.

Police say it happened around 3:30 p.m. on North Veterans Boulevard.

Lt. Marty Mask tells WCBI a rental van carrying 14 people was going east on Highway 78, when it took a wrong exit.

The driver tried to get back onto the highway, when the van was hit by a pickup truck on Veterans Boulevard, causing the van to roll over.

45-year-old Elizabeth Everett, of Miami, was killed.

Four of her passengers in the van were hospitalized. The others only had minor injuries.

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