Update: Lt. Governor Tate Reeves Involved In Accident

COLLINS, Miss. (AP) – Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and his security officer were not injured Monday in a two-vehicle accident in Collins.

The Highway Patrol says Reeves and his security detail were driving a Patrol F150 pickup truck when it collided with a car about 1:45 p.m. on U.S. Highway 49 in Collins.

The patrol says two people in the car were transported to a local hospital for minor, nonlife threatening injuries.

Collins police are investigating the accident.

***Press release***

“I can confirm that Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves was involved in a traffic accident today on Highway 49 in Collins,” his spokeswoman Laura Hipp said. “Lt. Gov. Reeves was a passenger in a Mississippi Highway Patrol vehicle and neither he nor his assigned trooper was injured. The Lt. Governor wishes to thank the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the Covington County Sheriff’s Office, the Collins Police Department and the Collins Fire Department for their rapid response to the accident.”