7-week-old baby and mom among three killed in fiery North Carolina crash, cops say
A 7-week-old was among three people killed in a fiery North Carolina crash, officials said.
The child’s mother and a 43-year-old man also died after two vehicles collided on Wednesday, Sept. 14, according to the Graham Police Department.
Officers responded at about 9:15 p.m. to a call on Moore Street in Graham. While at the scene — in Alamance County, roughly 25 miles east of Greensboro — police discovered a crash involving a Ford pickup truck and a Chevrolet SUV.
Officials said it was “apparent that one of the vehicles crossed left of center into the path of the other.” The SUV caught fire.
The 23-year-old mom and her baby were in the SUV and both died at the scene, Capt. Tony Velez told McClatchy News in a phone interview.
The 43-year-old man — the only other person involved in the crash — was in the pickup truck. He was rushed to a hospital and later died, police said.
While officers in a news release didn’t reveal which driver went into oncoming traffic, Velez said the vehicles had been traveling in opposite directions.
An investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call police at 336-570-6711 or Crime Stoppers at 336-229-7100.
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