Posted: Wednesday, Dec. 03, 2008
Three people were hurt, two seriously, in a head-on crash this morning in Alexander County.
The N.C. Highway Patrol says a third vehicle caushed the collision.
The crash happened about 7:30 a.m. on N.C. 90 near the town of Hiddenite. According to the Highway Patrol, a pickup truck slammed into the rear of a Toyota that was stopped on N.C. 90, waiting to turn onto Cheatham Ford Road.
The driver of the pickup truck, a male teenager on his way to school, told troopers that he was blinded by the early-morning sun and didn't see the stopped car in front of him.
The collision sent the Toyota into the path of an approaching vehicle. A woman and her child in the Toyota were seriously injured and airlifted to a Winston-Salem hospital. The driver of the other vehicle in the head-on crash suffered less serious injuries.
The pickup truck driver was not hurt.
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