Three killed when pickup truck slams into car head-on in North Carolina, troopers say
Three people, including a 79-year-old and an 81-year-old, died when a pickup truck slammed into a car head-on in North Carolina, officials said.
Sherry Elaine Aderhold was driving a Ford F-350 east when state troopers said the pickup left the road. It then “overcorrected, crossed the centerline” and hit a Toyota Camry that had been traveling west, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said in a news release.
Troopers said it happened at about 3:20 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17. The head-on crash was reported along Boone Trail in Wilkes County.
“As both vehicles ran off the road, the Toyota overturned and was pushed into an embankment,” officials said in the news release.
The Toyota driver and passenger reportedly were wearing seatbelts but died of crash-related injuries. They were identified as 79-year-old Ellen Huffman Roten and 81-year-old Pearl Bullins Huffman, respectively.
The 45-year-old pickup driver also died in the crash. Aderhold wasn’t wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident, according to officials.
The N.C. State Highway Patrol said all three people killed in the crash were residents of Purlear, roughly 25 miles east of the mountain tourist town of Boone.
This story was originally published December 20, 2021 at 11:37 AM with the headline "Three killed when pickup truck slams into car head-on in North Carolina, troopers say."
