Breaking News: Truck Driver Charged with Five Counts of Misdemeanor Death By Motor Vehicle
July 26 , 2024Wilson County, North Carolina — July 24, 2024 — According to the News & Observer, a tractor-trailer driver from Las Vegas was charged with causing a crash in a work zone on Interstate 95 that killed five people.
According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, the crash happened on northbound I-95 near mile 114.5 in Wilson County shortly before 1:30 p.m. and involved three tractor-trailers and two SUVs.
Highway Patrol investigators say the crash began when Charles Christian Haskell failed to slow down as traffic was reduced to one lane where the N.C. Department of Transportation was doing maintenance work.
According to the Highway Patrol, Haskell’s truck full of orange juice plowed into the back of a Chevy Tahoe and a Toyota Rav-4 before hitting two other tractor-trailers. Haskell, 51, got out of his truck before it burned completely.
All of the occupants of the SUVs were killed.
Two people in the Tahoe — William Carroll Tucker, 72, and Elizabeth Sharon Tucker, 66, of Hephzibah, Georgia — were killed, as were three people in the Rav-4: Edward Carroll Davis, 68, and Martha Warren Davis, 69, of Greenville, and Linda Warren Whitehurst, 80, of Robersonville.
The three truck drivers were taken to the Wilson Medical Center with minor injuries.
When he was released from the hospital, Haskell was arrested and charged with five counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle. He was being held in the Wilson County Detention Center. Investigators say while speed was a factor in the crash, they do not suspect that Haskell was impaired by drugs or alcohol.
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