LOWNDES COUNTY, MS. (THECOUNT) — Summer Michelle Yearby, of Columbus, Mississippi, has been identified as the victim in a Tuesday morning fatal vehicle crash in Lowndes County.
Yearby, 40, was killed while traveling as a passenger in a vehicle in Columbus on Tuesday morning.
According to reports, Yearby was traveling as a passenger in a Honda Accord on Casey Lane in Columbus, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle exited the roadway and came into contact with a tree.
Yearby was pronounced dead of blunt force trauma injuries at the scene.
The unidentified driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Geo quick facts: Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 59,779. Its county seat is Columbus. The county is named for U.S. Congressman and slave owner William Jones Lowndes – Wikipedia.
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