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Friday, September 19, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCThe construction workers were wearing reflective safety vests and were inside a work zone surrounded by construction barrels, and the construction site was illuminated with portable lighting at the time of the accident. "This is an incident where, late at night like this, more of unfortunate inattention than something we can enforce out here to protect our guys out here," according to First Sergeant Brian Joines.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCTroopers in Burke County are responding to a deadly overturned tractor trailer crash on Interstate 40 eastbound that has shut down one lane.
One person is dead, according to NC Highway Patrol, and another person was taken to the hospital.
The incident was reported at 7 a.m. at mile marker 113 in Morganton, according to the NCDOT.
No word yet on what caused the semi to overturn though troopers say it wasn't ice.
Troopers stated that one man was driving and another was in the sleeper.