CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One person died Sunday morning in a crash on northbound Interstate 85 near Exit 30, officials with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.
Around 5 a.m., the driver of a pickup truck crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer, troopers said.
Paramedics said one man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Troopers later identified the driver who died as Kelly Mason of Bessemer City.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shut down northbound lanes of I-85 for nearly four hours due to the crash.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation later reopened the interstate.
Channel 9 has been told that no one else was injured in the crash.
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