EMERGENCY WORKERS remove victims of this morning’s fatal wreck on U.S. 61 North near Valley Park.(The Vicksburg Post/C. TODD SHERMAN)

[04/30/02]VALLEY PARK At least one person was killed and three others were injured in a wreck this morning that involved three vehicles.

The victims were not identified in the accident that occurred about 9 and involved an older model beige Chevrolet Capri, a green Ford pickup and an 18-wheeler tractor. No license tags could be seen on any of the vehicles.

Vicksburg Fire Department Deputy Chief Rose Shaifer said the person who died was a passenger in the Chevrolet.

The injured people were brought to River Region Medical Center, she said. Their conditions were not known at late morning.

Although emergency officials discussed transporting the victims by helicopter, they were driven the approximately 15 miles south on U.S. 61 in Vicksburg Fire Department ambulances.

The wreck happened in Issaquena County, about two miles north of the Warren County line.

Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol officers investigating the wreck were not free to talk this morning, but the scene showed the 18-wheeler was knocked off the highway on the southbound side into a ditch, the pickup was in the ditch behind the 18-wheeler and the car was in the middle of the highway.

The ditch along that stretch of the highway is about five feet below the road.