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On Saturday in Watauga County, the North Carolina Highway Patrol says a pickup truck driven by Michael Pinkham was traveling at a high rate of speed when it crossed the center line on U.S. 421 near the Tennessee state line at 8:30 p.m., violently striking a Honda Civic head-on. Inside the Honda was a family from Mountaun City, Tennessee: Nicholas Blackwell, 24, his wife Molly, 23, and their infant Harper, 11 months old. All three died at the scene. Pinkham, of Ridgeway, South Carolina, died an hour later at Watauga Medical Center in Boone.