Brookhaven landmark damaged by car crash
Brookhaven landmark destroyed in crash
By Therese Apel | December 11, 2020 at 1:32 PM CST - Updated December 11 at 1:45 PM
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (WLBT) - It was a quiet morning in Brookhaven, until a car ran out of control downtown.
“Sunday morning about 10:45 a driver rammed into and destroyed a column that sits in front of the Lampton Auditorium. The column is one of the historic markers that is still standing from Whitworth College from the early 1900s,” said Mississippi School of the Arts Executive Director Suzanne Hirsch.
It happened on the MSA campus, which is the old Whitworth College. The column was believed to have been built in 1927. A police report says the driver may have sideswiped another vehicle before hitting the landmark at a high rate of speed.