According to The Commercial Appeal, troopers said those killed Monday on Interstate 40 near Brownsville were 21-year--old Fernando Carrasco, 36-year-old Jose Hinojosa and Lupe Hinojosa, whose age wasn't immediately known.
Troopers said the pickup truck in which the men were passengers blew a tire and ran across the median, into the path of a tractor-trailer rig.
The pickup driver was critically injured.
Another passenger was released from a hospital after treatment, and the tractor-trailer driver escaped injury in the head-on collision.