BATESVILLE, Miss. — “It didn’t — she looked bad. I didn’t want to mess with her,” Anthony Peavy said.
Peavy tried to help seconds after a Panola County Sheriff’s Deputy crashed into an elderly couple’s SUV.
“It’s like he didn’t even see the SUV,” Peavy said. “He just didn’t stop and kept coming and just hit them.”
Peavy and four other people, who did not want to be identified, witnessed the crash on MS Highway 6 near Terza Road.
The witnesses said the deputy was in the wrong.
They told investigators the deputy was attempting to cross the highway in the median of Terza Road but did not stop and crashed into the couple driving.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol said they were investigating to figure out exactly what caused the crash and if speed played a role.
“Their car was spinning up in the air and landed in the ditch,” Peavy said.
Tire marks and paint showed where William and Linda Irwin’s vehicle went barreling across the road and into a hole.
Gauze and empty fluid bags left behind showed the devastating impact of the crash.
“Their windows was busted and stuff, the top was pushed down a little bit — you couldn’t really get in through the front,” Peavy said. “I went to the back window, and they looked busted up, and they didn’t want us to move them or nothing.”
The couple was rushed to the hospital in Memphis where they later died.
People who lived in the area of the wreck called for change by asking for a stop sign to be put in the median intersection of the highway.
