TEENAGER IDENTIFIED AS VICTIM IN BIZZARE CRASH


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By Jon Mayhew

NORTH BROOK -- The North Carolina Highway Patrol has identified a woman killed Sunday night in a bizzare weather-related accident off Highway 274 in western Lincoln County.

Emily Michelle Boston, 19, of Ed Willis Road, Vale, was going home according to investigators. She was traveling down Ed Willis Road when a tree fell across the roadway, becoming entangled in power lines. Without enough time to react, Boston's car went under the tree, shearing the roof off the vehicle. Boston's vehicle came to rest about 50 feet from the tree on the right side of the road.

Trooper S. Boyles said the impact didn't decapitate the teenager; she was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force trauma to the head.

Part of Ed Willis Road was closed into early Monday morning for workers to remove the tree. Duke Power was called in to restore power to about 40 customers who lost power when the tree fell.

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