Multi-Car Wreck May Have Been Deliberate

GUNTOWN, Miss.--A multi-vehicle wreck near Guntown may have been on purpose. An eyewitness told Guntown police that he saw a truck being driven by 38-year-old Phillip Hobgood of Booneville try to force another vehicle off the road shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday on Hwy. 45.

Guntown Police Chief Michael Hall told WTVA in Tupelo that Hobgood is beg held and he will know by Thursday night if he will be charged.

The vehicle that was struck by Hobgood's truck rolled across the median and hit an SUV. Seventy-six-year-old Henry Fanning was in the vehicle that flipped and was taken to the hospital, along with a woman who was riding with him. The TV station reported Hobgood was also injured.