The driver of a tractor involved in a wreck with a military vehicle on a stretch of Highway 84 in Lawrence County on Monday afternoon remained in stable condition this morning.
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Brandon Fortenberry said the military vehicle, for which he did not offer any further description, was traveling east on 84 when it rear-ended a tractor traveling in the right lane on the highway.
The driver of the tractor, Oliver Rodgers of Monticello, was ejected and taken to King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven before being airlifted to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
The tractor came to rest on its side in the right lane of the highway, and the military vehicle stopped on the south shoulder of the highway.
The guardsmen in the military vehicle were returning from Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg and were not injured, Fortenberry said.
The accident marked the second involving a tractor on Highway 84 over the course of three days.
On Saturday, 62-year-old Charles K. Carr died after a 2006 Chevrolet pickup Billy Brumfield, 55, of Foxworth, rear ended him near the Lincoln-Lawrence county line.
Brumfield sustained minor injuries from the wreck.
Fortenberry said both wrecks remain under investigation.
