Teacher Injured In Huntersville Crash Dies

A local teacher involved in a head-on crash on the way to school died Thursday night from her injuries.

Neighbors on N.C. 73 in Huntersville said they heard the loud crash around 7:30 a.m., and watched as police blocked the road near Brown Mill Road for several hours.

Police said both cars were going 55 mph, which is the speed limit there. The impact left the pickup truck in the road, but threw the small Pontiac onto the shoulder. Both drivers were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

The pickup driver was identified as 19-year-old Stephen Todd Richard. The Pontiac’s driver was identified as 25-year-old Aimee Elisabeth Powell, a fourth-grade teacher at Southlake Christian Academy. The school is less than a mile down the road.

Powell died about 12 hours later.

Her pastor at Uptown Church said she grew up in a family that did missionary work and her parents are on their way back from a mission trip in Taiwan.

Several eyewitnesses told police they saw one of the vehicles cross the center line of the road, but Huntersville police are still investigating the crash.

Highway 73 was blocked for much of the day. Even after the cars involved were towed away, police returned to take measurements of the crash scene.