HUGO — A collision on Airy Grove Church road left one man dead and another person hospitalized.
At around 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, Michael David Jackson was traveling down Airy Grove Church Road when a van slammed into his 1993 Toyota pickup truck.
“There was a vehicle traveling left-of-center, in a curve, basically, it went into the other vehicle’s lane of travel, and struck that vehicle nearly head-on, or in a head-on like manner,” said Charles Johnston, first sergeant with the North Carolina Highway Patrol. “There was one driver that was killed on impact.”
Troopers believe Jackson, of Hookerton, may have been heading home at the time.
Douglas Eakins Jones, 74, also of Hookerton, drove the 1999 Ford Econoline Van that struck Jackson’s truck, and he is being treated at Vidant Medical Center.
Jones is charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle.
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