Investigation Continues Into Wednesday Night Collision

SHERMAN (WCBI) – The Mississippi Highway Patrol is still investigating a two-vehicle crash, involving a semi-tractor/trailer, that claimed the lives of two children, in Pontotoc County.

Troopers responded to I-22, near Blue Springs, MS, at approximately 11:30pm, January 4, 2017. Upon arriving it appeared Steven L Dillard, 41, of Shannon, MS, was traveling east bound, operating a 2015 Volvo, semi-tractor/trailer, when his vehicle collided into the rear of an east bound, 1997 Acura, driven by Ronald Sanders, 28, of Memphis, Tennessee.

There were five occupants in Sander’s vehicle. Sanders and Kentura M. Fleming, 27, of Memphis, were both transported to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS, with moderate injuries. An 11-month old child was transported to NMMC by ambulance and later transferred to LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN,  with life threatening injuries.  Ja-Katelyn A Cox, age two, and Joslyn M Glenn, nine-month old infant, both from Memphis, TN, received fatal injuries from the crash and died on the crash scene.

Dillard was not injured in the crash.

Troopers are trying to determine if Sanders was slowing or stopping in the roadway at the time of the collision.