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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Erin Jenkins-Nabe, 32, was driving on I-55 near Butler Hill Road around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday when the rear tires on her car blew out. As she tried to leave the roadway, her car became wedged underneath a tractor trailer, and she was pronounced dead at the accident scene.  
Date: 
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Three people died and one was injured in a Mississippi County crash on Sunday morning on on Interstate 55. Elva Figurero, 46, Gabriel Figurero, 46, and Navor Medina, 36, were killed in the crash when the SUV they were riding in had a left rear tire blowout. The driver then over corrected, rolled over, and entered a ditch. Two people were pronounced deceased at the crash site, another died at a local hospital. The driver of the vehicle, Francisco Figurero, was taken to a Memphis hospital, and his condition is unknown at this time.