Mississippi Highway 6

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MS Highway 6

Numbered highways in Mississippi < MS 5 MS 7 > Interstates - U.S. Routes - State highways Unsigned state highways

Mississippi Highway 6 runs east-west from MS 161 in Lyon, Mississippi, Mississippi, east to MS 25 near Amory, Mississippi. It travels approximately 136 miles (219 km), serving Coahoma, Quitman, Panola, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Lee, and Monroe Counties. West of Tupelo, it is concurrent with US 278.

Contents 1 Controversy over parking on the highway shoulder 2 Points of interest 3 Locales on route 4 Junctions 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Controversy over parking on the highway shoulder

On September 4, 2004, a 19 year old University of Mississippi student named Dustin Dill from Orlando, Florida struck and killed a fellow student, 23 year old pharmacy major and Oxford native Amie Ewing (who was also intoxicated), on this highway. Dill had a 0.12 percent blood-alcohol level when his Honda Accord struck Ewing and sent her into a parked Oldsmobile Achieva.^[1][2] Ewing, like hundreds of other people, had parked along the shoulder of highway 6 and then walked to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium to watch the Ole Miss Rebels football team play the University of Memphis Tigers and was killed when she crossed the westbound lane of the highway approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) east of Old Taylor Road while returning to her car.^[3]

Mississippi state law and Oxford city law prohibited the use of state highway shoulders as parking lots^[4][5] however this law went unenforced in Oxford, Mississippi on Saturdays when the Ole Miss Rebels football team would play. Since this event, the 'no parking' laws along this highway are now enforced^[6]. This highway is now also known as "Amie Ewing Memorial Highway".^[7]

[edit] Points of interest

• Tombigbee State Park
• Trace State Park
• University of Mississippi

[edit] Locales on route

From east to west

• Amory, Mississippi
• Nettleton, Mississippi
• Plantersville, Mississippi
• Tupelo, Mississippi
• Pontotoc, Mississippi
• Oxford, Mississippi
• Batesville, Mississippi
• Lyon, Mississippi
• Clarksdale, Mississippi

[edit] Junctions

From east to west

• Mississippi Highway 25
• Mississippi Highway 371
• Mississippi Highway 178
• U.S. Highway 45 (U.S. Highway 278 splits eastbound, joins westbound)
• Mississippi Highway 145
• Natchez Trace Parkway
• Mississippi Highway 342
• Mississippi Highway 9
• Mississippi Highway 336
• Mississippi Highway 15
• Mississippi Highway 76
• Mississippi Highway 334
• Mississippi Highway 7
• Mississippi Highway 315
• Interstate 55
• U.S. Highway 51
• Mississippi Highway 35
• Mississippi Highway 3
• Mississippi Highway 316
• U.S. Highway 61 / U.S. Highway 49 (U.S. Highway 278 splits westbound, joins eastbound)
• Mississippi Highway 161

[edit] External links

• Magnolia Meanderings
• Mississippi Department of Transportation
• Amie Ewing Memorial Highway sign

[edit] References