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Date: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said Steve Allen Williams of Wade was driving a tractor trailer east on I-40 at about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday when the truck traveled into the median, struck a guard wire, and crossed into the westbound lane at mile marker 329. The tractor trailer jackknifed, departed the left side of the highway, and overturned in a ditch full of water. Williams was strapped into his seat belt with his head submerged under water, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.