Four die in accidents

Published 12:00 am Monday, February 2, 2009

Visitation for Charles Colby Mason, 17, son of Keith and Gayle Whitsell Mason of Senatobia, will be held Monday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Magnolia Heights School where he was a junior.

Services will follow on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the school.

Colby was one of four people killed in separate north Mississippi traffic accidents between Thursday night and Sunday morning.

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Kelly Wayne Hudson, 40, was killed in a one vehicle accident on a county road near Pope Thursday night. He was the husband of  Kay DuBois Hudson and the son of Bobby and Betty Herron Hudson, all of Batesville.

Cynthia Ann Martin Alewine, 51, died in a single car accident Saturday night or early Sunday on Highway 35, south of Batesville near its intersection with Shiloh Road, Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sergeant Leslie White said. Alewine’s southbound vehicle left the left shoulder of Highway 35 and overturned several times before striking trees, the officer said.

Mason died shortly midnight Sunday morning in a one-car accident on Highway 51 near Merryhill Ranch Road north of Senatobia, White said. Mason’s vehicle was northbound on Highway 51, left the roadway on the right side, traveled down an embankment, re-entered Highway 51 and came to rest on the highway’s left shoulder, the MHP report stated. A passenger in Mason’s vehicle was injured, he said.

The fourth fatality also occurred shortly after midnight Sunday morning in a two-car crash on Highway 49 near the Coahoma-Tallahatchie County Line, the MHP spokesman said. Earl L. Busby, 41, of Tutwiler died when the southbound vehicle in which he was passenger collided head-on with a northbound vehicle, White said.

Hudson’s funeral was held Sunday. Alewine’s arrangements are pending. Wells Funeral Home of Batesville handled arrangements for Hudson and is handling arrangements for Mason and Alewine also.