BELMONT, N.C. — An early morning crash in Belmont killed one person and closed down a major interstate for hours on Saturday morning.
Belmont Police say a car was stopped in the far-left lane of I-85 South near mile marker 27 when another car hit it around 2:43 a.m.
The disabled car did not have its lights on. The driver of the other car, who wasn’t hurt, said he couldn’t avoid the car and rear-ended it. The person in the disabled car, Jackson Munsey, was ejected onto the road and died from his injuries.
All lanes closed while agencies investigated the crash and cleared the road. Channel 9′s photographer captured the moments troopers moved the barriers on the road, reopening traffic just before 8 a.m.
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The road was closed for seven hours while detectives investigated the crash, causing a major backup.
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Channel 9 asked NC State Highway Patrol for more information on the crash.
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