WRECK KILLS ONE IN WEST LINCOLN

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BY JON MAYHEW

NORTH BROOK -- The North Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a bizzare Sunday night accident that claimed the life of a woman.

The accident happened around 11:15 p.m. on Ed Willis Road off Highway 274. A tree had fallen across the roadway from severe thunderstorms that passed through the area Sunday night; the woman didn't see the tree across the roadway in time to be able to stop.



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According to NCHP trooper S. Boyles, the woman ran under the tree while it was entangled in power lines. The force of the accident sheared the top of the woman's vehicle completely off, with the vehicle coming to rest about 50 feet from the tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene but not decapitated from the force of the wreck.

"She died of blunt force tramua," said Boyles. The victim's name couldn't be released pending notification of next of kin.

Ed Willis Road was blocked at the site of the accident for more than an hour. North Brook Firefighters used tools off their brush truck to get the tree out of the roadway. The State Department of Transportation will have to remove the debris.

More than 40 people were in the dark in North Brook when the tree fell across the road. Duke Power was on the scene very early Monday morning, working to restore power.


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