A 47-year-old Autryville man died tonight in a one-vehicle accident on Pumpkintown Road near the intersection of N.C. 24.
According to reports from the N.C. Highway Patrol, John Rhinard Croyle, of 821 Saddleclub Road, Autryville was killed in the one-vehicle accident just after 5:30 p.m. Speed, the report notes, was believed to be a factor.
The accident, Trooper W.E. Johnson wrote in his report, occurred when Croyle, traveling south in his 1996 Chevrolet Lumina, traveled left of the center line, running off the road to the left…