Two drivers seriously injured, transported to hospital, after a tractor-tanker and car collide on U.S. 15/501 near Carthage.

A tanker truck and Toyota Camry crashed on a two-lane highway just outside of Carthage around 8:30 a.m. Thursday, seriously injuring the drivers of both vehicles.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol said the Toyota Camry's driver was northbound on U.S. Highway 15/501 near Irene Lane when she sideswiped a dump truck headed south.

The driver, later identified as Chelsea Bosworth, 22, then swerved back into the northbound lane but overcorrected, crossed the center line and hit the 18-wheeler, which flipped over into a ditch.

Emergency workers took the tanker truck's driver, identified as Cecil Birgman, 29, to Moore Regional Hospital, while the Camry's driver was airlifted to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.

Authorities at the scene said their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening