Two people from Charlotte died in a car crash Friday afternoon after their car plunged nearly 50 feet off a bridge.
Sixteen-year-old Trevon Rutherford remains in critical condition Saturday at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem after the car he was in plunged off a bridge onto an embankment below. He suffered two broken legs, a broken arm and has dozens of stitches and staples in his neck and head.
Rutherford’s sister, Brittany Enoch told Eyewitness News that Rutherford usually went with their older stepbrother, 21-year-old Shavalos Jameson, to Winston-Salem to pick up Jameson’s fiancé, 19-year-old Thea-Simone McDuffie. Both died in the crash.
Enoch said her brother would be in the hospital for more than a month.
“It’s hard; it’s very hard for something like this to happen. It’s hard,” Enoch said.
McDuffie was behind the wheel when the car plunged off the bridge in Davidson County.
Jameson’s neighbor told Eyewitness News he saw him (Shavalos) working under the car Friday afternoon before he left for Winston-Salem. He said he had been working on the tie rod – the part of the car that makes wheels steer in the right direction.
The crash remains under investigation. Authorities have ruled out drugs and alcohol.
Rutherford is a junior at West Mecklenburg High School.
McDuffie was a student at Winston-Salem State and Jameson had been a student a Central Piedmont Community College.
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