MARS HILL – A female Madison High School student was killed and another Madison High girl is hospitalized after a motor vehicle collision Jan. 30.
The victim, a Madison High senior, died after being struck by a French Broad Electric Membership Corporation utility truck after turning left out of her driveway along N.C. 213, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The passenger in the vehicle, also a Madison High senior, was transported to Mission Hospital and is in stable condition after sustaining “some pretty life-threatening conditions,” according to Sgt. P.J. Morgan with North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The State Highway Patrol said it did not want to release an ID of the student until the organization’s report is official. The family has been notified.
Mars Hill Fire Chief Nathan Waldrop said the department responded to the collision, which occurred in front of Petersburg Transmission, 4368 N.C. 213, just before 7:45 a.m. Jan. 30.
Morgan said the three-vehicle collision involved the French Broad Electric Membership Corporation utility truck striking the side of the student’s vehicle, causing the vehicle to sideswipe another vehicle coming from the opposite direction.