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According to witnesses, a four-door sedan was speeding back and forth on the road when the driver lost control and the vehicle left the road and flipped, crashing into a brick wall of the Jesus Name Ministerial Tabernacle on North Aspen Street. The accident happend at around 2:35 a.m. Sunday morning. The car started on fire, and good Samaritans pulled occupants from the wreckage. A back seat passenger, Beatriz Maria Garcia, died in the accident. Speed was apparently a factor.
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.
Margaret Lee Lumsden, 69, was driving at a high rate of speed on I-85 southbound through Belmont when she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree just after 9:30 a.m. near mile marker 25. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A medical issue may have played a part in the crash, which remains under investigation.