On June 14, 2008, a 51-year-old man from Fayetteville, North Carolina was driving a tractor-trailer truck on U.S. Highway 17 when he drove through the scene of a car accident, killing a volunteer firefighter and a sheriff’s deputy. The truck driver now faces two charges of misdemeanor death by vehicle and one charge of exceeding a safe speed for his role in the fatal tractor-trailer truck accident.

At the time of the truck accident, the Onslow County volunteer firefighter and sheriff’s deputy were assisting with three minor car accidents that occurred during low visibility created by a controlled burn. A second deputy was injured when the tractor-trailer truck pushed his patrol car against him.

Source: Anne Johnson, “Tractor-trailer driver charged after wreck kills Onslow firefighter, deputy,” Wral.com, June 15, 2008.