The husband of a nurse who drowned Wednesday night in a ditch off U.S. 49E, south of Greenwood, says authorities were too late in posting signs like this and taking other preventive measures to warn motorists about the flooded highway that claimed his wife’s life. (By Tim Kalich, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)
The husband of the nurse who drowned when her car was swept off a flooded Leflore County highway Wednesday is furious the road wasn’t blocked off before his wife reached the life-threatening stretch.
And he says he’s planning to sue the Mississippi Department of Transportation and two county governments over her death.