{"id":158466,"date":"2026-04-28T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=158466"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:38:10","slug":"mississippi-highway-patrol-and-lafayette-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-hit-and-run-crash-involving-lafayette-county-school-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-highway-patrol-and-lafayette-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-hit-and-run-crash-involving-lafayette-county-school-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Highway Patrol and Lafayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Investigating Hit-and-Run Crash Involving Lafayette County School Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi Highway Patrol<\/strong> is investigating a Monday afternoon crash on <strong>Highway 334<\/strong> involving a <strong>Lafayette County School District<\/strong> bus and a passenger vehicle that fled the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lafayette County Sheriff<\/strong> deputies were dispatched to the crash at 3:32 pm Monday, April 27, 2026. The driver of the passenger vehicle left the scene before deputies arrived. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Lafayette County Fire Department, Lafayette County Emergency Management Agency<\/strong>, and <strong>Baptist Ambulance Service<\/strong> also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mississippi Highway Patrol is leading the investigation with assistance from LCSO investigators. Detectives have identified a person of interest, but no name is being released at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff<strong> Joey East<\/strong> said the case will be pursued aggressively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The safety of our children and the men and women who drive them to school every day is non-negotiable,&#8221; Sheriff East said. &#8220;In Lafayette County, there will be zero tolerance for anyone who puts our students or our bus drivers in harm&#8217;s way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Leaving the scene of a crash involving a school bus was a very poor decision, and we will work alongside the Mississippi Highway Patrol to make sure whoever is responsible is held fully accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LCSO will not be releasing additional information at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating a Monday afternoon crash on Highway 334 involving a Lafayette County School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":158467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[32814,4865,15990,1097,34421,10914,15921,4469,6833,34422],"class_list":["post-158466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-baptist-ambulance-service","tag-bus","tag-highway-334","tag-joey-east","tag-lafayette-county-emergency-management-agency","tag-lafayette-county-fire-department","tag-lafayette-county-school-district","tag-lafayette-county-sheriff","tag-mississippi-highway-patrol","tag-school-bus-crash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/35468028-school-bus-crash-generic.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158468,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158466\/revisions\/158468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}