Woman dies after wreck on way to Vicksburg|[6/16/06]

Published 12:00 am Monday, June 19, 2006

The driver of a car that crashed into a Madison Parish patrol vehicle on Interstate 20 Saturday died Sunday at University Medical Center.

Brandy York, 23, lived in Tallulah and worked in Vicksburg.

Also Sunday, four Vicksburg teens were hurt when the truck in which they were riding left Cain Ridge Road, hit a mailbox and a road sign and crashed into a tree.

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York was first taken to River Region Medical Center, where she worked as a nurse, and then to the medical center in Jackson.

The 2000 Toyota 4-Runner she was driving hit Madison Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Wayne Stutz’s sedan. The deputy had stopped traffic in one eastbound lane of I-20 just east of Richmond to wave traffic away from a car that had caught fire in the median at 7 a.m. Saturday, said Louisiana State Police. York was ejected and landed about 50 feet from her SUV, Lewis said. She was pronounced dead at 10 a.m. Sunday in Jackson.

Stutz was not in his car, and there were no other injuries.

York was a Tallulah native, said John Kamman of Glenwood Funeral Home, which has charge of funeral arrangements. Kamman is also an uncle of York’s husband, James, a firefighter with the Vicksburg Fire Department. The couple had a 2-year-old daughter, Hannah Claire, he said.

The accident occurred as York was on her way to her job at the hospital on U.S. 61 North, Kamman said. &#8220She worked here, and her friends are all here” in Vicksburg, he said. &#8220She was a really sweet girl, a very devoted mother.”

Services for York will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Vicksburg. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be at Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah.

The four teens injured in the one-car accident around 1 a.m. on Cain Ridge Road in Vicksburg were Richard Hanks, 17, and Kayla Hanks, 14, both of 103 Sunset Ave., Rebecca Wilson, 15, 6005 Castle Road and Rebecca Connerly, 15, 50 Lakeland Park Drive, Vicksburg police spokesman Jan Barnett said.

They were taken from the scene of the accident to River Region Medical Center,.

Kayla Hanks was airlifted from River Region to UMC, where she was in fair condition this morning, said hospital spokesman Thyrie Bland. Richard Hanks, her brother, was also taken to Jackson and was also in fair condition this morning, Bland said.

Rebecca Wilson was in good condition this morning and Rebecca Connerly was treated and released, said River Region spokesman Diane Gawronski.

Richard Hanks was driving a red 1996 Ford Ranger east on Cain Ridge when the truck left the road, Barnett said.

Richard and Becky Wilson were partially ejected, and Kayla was trapped inside the vehicle. Rebecca Connerly was already outside on her own when emergency crews arrived, she said.

In a wreck on Saturday afternoon, also on I-20 but in Mississippi near Bovina, six people were taken for medical treatment.

The four-vehicle, chain-reaction wreck may have begun with attempted lane shifts by westbound traffic. Thirteen people were in the vehicles and at least one vehicle, a Jeep, caught fire. Traffic was snarled for about two hours.

Of the six, two were hospitalized. Kole Conley, 45, of Como, was treated and released, and Ginger Walpole, 45, of Ruston, La., was described in good condition this morning.