BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — One person is dead following a vehicle crash involving a dump truck on U.S. 19 on Monday, Feb. 9, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
Around 11:38 a.m., NCSHP was dispatched to a crash with a passenger car and a dump truck, where someone was trapped on U.S. 19 near Fairmont Road, according to an email from NCSHP Sgt. H.M. Onderdonk.
Onderdonk described that the car was driving West on U.S. 19 when it ran off the road to the right, sideswiped the guardrail end cap, overcorrected and entered the eastbound lanes, where the dump truck struck it on the passenger door side…