OLD FORT, N.C. (WBTV) – A truck driver’s death in one western North Carolina town has added to Hurricane Helene’s total.
The driver, Ralph Hibbert, died when he lost brakes while driving through Old Fort earlier this month, the town said.
The town said the “heroic” Hibbert acted with “incredible courage” as he steered away from others, thus preventing what the town said could have been “a far greater tragedy.”…