The Latest: 2 children, 1 adult killed in Halloween wreck

In this image made from video, people gather around a pickup truck on a flatbed truck at the scene of an accident on U.S. Highway 80 in Chunky, Miss., late Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. A vehicle struck the flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP)
In this image made from video, people gather around a pickup truck on a flatbed truck at the scene of an accident on U.S. Highway 80 in Chunky, Miss., late Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. A vehicle struck the flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP)
In this image made from video, people gather around a pickup truck on a flatbed truck at the scene of an accident on U.S. Highway 80 in Chunky, Miss., late Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. A vehicle struck the flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP)

CHUNKY, Miss. (AP) — A vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities said.

 Two children and one adult — all related to each other — were killed in the crash, Newton County Coroner Danny Shoemaker said late Monday. Their names and ages were not immediately released.
 “It was just chaos,” Shoemaker said, describing the scene of the wreck on U.S. Highway 80 in Chunky, a town near the Alabama border, about 80 miles east of Jackson.
 There was no immediate word on what caused the crash.
 The coroner said two people died at the scene and the other died waiting for a hospital helicopter.
 Three helicopters and multiple ambulances took the injured to hospitals. Some had life-threatening injuries, Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos said.
 Poulos said he did not know what group was sponsoring the trailer ride.
 Chunky has a population of about 325. It is near the Chunky River, a popular site for canoeing.

CHUNKY, Miss. (AP) – The Latest on a Halloween night crash that killed people on a Mississippi highway (all times local):

12:05 a.m.

A coroner says one adult and two children have been killed when the trailer they were riding on was struck on a highway in a small town in eastern Mississippi on Halloween night.

Newton County Coroner Danny Shoemaker says the three were all related to each other. Their names, ages and details about how they were related were not immediately being released late Monday. Shoemaker says two died at the scene of the wreck and one died while waiting for a hospital helicopter.

Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos (POH-less) tells The Associated Press the accident happened on U.S. Highway 80 in Chunky, about 80 miles east of Jackson. He says it appears a vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying people celebrating Halloween about 7:45 p.m. CDT.

Investigators were on the scene late Monday.

11:28 p.m.

A law enforcement officer says three people have been killed and several injured when a trailer pulling people for Halloween festivities was struck in eastern Mississippi.

Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos (POH-less) tells The Associated Press the accident happened on U.S. Highway 80 in the small town of Chunky, about 80 miles east of Jackson. He says it appears a vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying people about 7:45 p.m.

He says the three people killed were on the trailer. Three helicopters and several ambulances took injured people to three hospitals. Poulos says some had life-threatening injuries.

Investigators were on the scene late Monday. Names of those killed and details about the number of people injured were not immediately available.

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