TIM PRATT
A longtime newspaper carrier, who was preparing to deliver Sunday’s edition of The Starkville Dispatch, was seriously injured when his vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer.
Winston “Ringo” Minor was on his way to pick up newspapers at Clayton Village Mini Storage Sunday at around 2:30 a.m. when an 18-wheeler “T-boned” Minor’s vehicle at the Highway 182-Highway 82 interchange, said fellow carrier Mary Tallent, who was waiting for Minor at the drop location when the accident occurred.
Tallent became worried when Minor still had not shown up at the drop location at around 2:15 a.m., so she called him on his cellular phone. Minor told Tallent he was five or 10 minutes away, Tallent recalled Monday.
Shortly after Tallent and Minor got off the phone together, she heard the accident take place. Tallent’s grandson was with her and also heard the wreck.
“He said, ‘I think that’s a wreck,’” Tallent recalled. “And I said, ‘I hope that’s not Winston.’”
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