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Fire & Police Briefs: 3 students injured in school-bus wreck
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Published: September 30, 2008
Updated: 09/30/2008 03:22 pm
BOONE -- Three students were injured yesterday morning when their school bus overturned on Hardin Road, about 7½ miles east of Boone, authorities said.
Karen Lisa Dallas, 36, of Deep Gap was driving the school bus with six students when she encountered an oncoming car at 7:13, said Trooper Gene Johnson of the N.C. Highway Patrol. That section of Hardin Road is a narrow dirt road.
Dallas pulled the bus over to allow the car to pass, Johnson said. The road's shoulder gave way under the weight of the bus, which overturned once and came to rest next to a tree -- 40 feet off the road.
The bus, which did not strike the car, was taking the students to Parkway Elementary School in Boone.
Three of the six students were injured, but all six students and Dallas were taken to Watauga Regional Hospital as a precaution, Johnson said. The injured students had cuts and bruises. All had been released from the hospital by midmorning.
Johnson declined to release the students' names because some parents had not been notified. The students' ages range from 8 to 14.
No charges have been filed.
2nd person died of injuries received in Friday wreck
A second person died Sunday two days after a car collided with another car in the 4400 block of North Patterson Avenue, authorities said today.
Tommy Edison Flippin, 83, of Rural Hall died from his injuries at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Sabrina Lechelle Lilly, 24, of Winston-Salem died Friday from her injuries at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, police said.
Rhonda Wood, 58, of Suffolk, Va., was a passenger in Flippin's car. She had non-life-threatening injuries and was treated at the medical center, police said.
The wreck happened about 4:10 p.m. Lilly was driving her car north on North Patterson Avenue when she ran off the road, police said. She steered her car back onto the road, but it began spinning out of control. Flippin, who was driving south on Patterson Avenue, stopped his car after he saw Lilly's car come into his lane, police said. Lilly's car then collided with Flippin's car.
Neither speed nor alcohol appears to be factors in the wreck, police said.
The deaths were the city's 14th and 15th traffic fatalities this year.
This story was updated on Tuesday at 3:22 p.m. to correct an earlier version that misidentified the car Wood was in. Wood was in Flippin's car.
Construction debris burns at new baseball stadium
A stack of construction debris caught on fire on the roof of the new baseball stadium downtown yesterday.
The fire sent a jet of black smoke into the air over Peters Creek Parkway, but it appeared to cause little damage to the stadium. Construction should continue on a normal schedule, said Curt Rowell, a Winston-Salem fire captain.
Firefighters went to the ballpark at 9:15 a.m. and extinguished the fire about 15 minutes later, Rowell said. The material that caught fire was a stack of Styrofoam insulation panels, he said. Rowell said that investigators hadn't determined what sparked the fire.
No one was injured.
3 men charged in thefts of catalytic converters
LEXINGTON -- Three men were behind a string of catalytic-converter thefts in Davidson County and three cities, Sheriff David Grice of the Davidson County Sheriff's Office said yesterday.
The converters were stolen from car lots, business parking lots and houses, as well as from vehicles that had broken down along several highways, he said.
Lawrence Russell Nicholson III, 28, of 6227 Pinebrook Drive in Archdale was charged with five counts of felony larceny and 26 counts of misdemeanor larceny. He was being held in the Davidson County Jail with bond set at $80,000.
Kevin Michael Nicholson, 25, of 909 Liberty Road in Archdale was charged with six counts of felony larceny and 26 counts of misdemeanor larceny. He was in the Davidson County Jail with bond set at $85,000.
Charles Jeffrey Bryant, 26, of 3925 Mill Road in Trinity was charged with six counts of felony larceny and 25 counts of misdemeanor larceny. He was being held in the Davidson County Jail with bond set at $40,000.
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