The Picayune Item

December 15, 2009

Troopers: McComb man dies in crash in La.


McCOMB — Authorities say a McComb man was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Louisiana.

Louisiana State Police identified the victim as 29-year-old Teddy Cornelius Jackson. Troopers said Jackson was driving southbound on Interstate-55 in Tangipahoa Parish about 6:10 a.m. Saturday when his vehicle left the road and struck a tree.

The newspaper reports that Jackson was taken to Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite, La., where he later died.