Crash on Natchez Trace Parkway Claims Tupelo Man’s Life

CHICKASAW CO., Miss. (WCBI) – A Tupelo man has died after a single-vehicle crash near Okolona, around mile post 237. It happened August 1, just after 7:30 AM.

Steve Hickman, 56, was traveling northbound on the Natchez Trace Parkway when his 2003 Ford Explorer left the road and struck a tree.

U.S. Park Rangers, Chickasaw County Sheriff’s deputies, and the Okolona Fire Department responded to the scene of the collision.

Fire department personnel extracted Hickman from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Chickasaw County coroner.

 

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