https://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-highway-collapses-2-killed-090206465.html

Tue, August 31, 2021, 2:02 AM·3 min readIn this article:

• Cal RobertsonAmerican actor

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when seven vehicles plunged, one after another, into a deep hole where a dark, rural highway collapsed asHurricane Idablew through Mississippi, authorities said Tuesday.

Torrential rain may have caused the collapse Monday night, and the drivers may not have seen that the roadway in front of them had disappeared, Mississippi Highway Patrol Cpl. Cal Robertson said. The George County Sheriff’s Department received the first call about a crash at about 10:30 p.m.

Robertson told The Associated Press that some of the vehicles ended up stacked on top of each other as they crashed into the abyss, which opened up in a rural area without street lights. Ida dumped as much as 13 inches (33 centimeters) of rain as…