Two people went to the hospital following a wreck Monday on U.S. 258 North that slowed traffic in both directions for the better part of an hour. Troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol were not immediately able to confirm the names of the drivers before Lenoir County EMS transported them to Lenoir Memorial Hospital. ‘It sounds like there was a bus stopped here at some point, and the lady in the blue car, here, did not get stopped in time and she rear-ended the white car,’ NCHP First Sgt. Charles Johnston said. The blue car, a Chevrolet Cobalt, sustained heavy damage to the front end. The trunk lid and rear bumper buckled in on the white car, also a Chevrolet. State Trooper R.B. Kirk, who worked the scene with Johnston, was on a hit-and-run call to Skinner’s Bypass when he encountered the wreck. The condition of the drivers is unknown at present.
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