LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. — A grandmother was killed in a crash while driving her three grandchildren to school early Thursday morning in Lincoln County, according to state troopers.
Troopers said it appears that Lora Holman, 54, didn’t stop for the stop sign at Dan Rhyne Road. Her car collided with an SUV in the intersection with Cat Square Road.
Holman’s car flipped several times and landed about 40 yards away from where the vehicles crashed.
Witnesses told Channel 9 that the children -- ages 8, 12 and 13 -- appeared to be stunned and worried about their grandmother. Holman and her grandchildren were buckled up.
Two of the children were airlifted to a hospital, officials said. None of them made it to their schools, North Brook Elementary and West Lincoln Middle.
“It sounded like a loud roll of thunder,” resident Rosalie Adams said. “It did, and it just kept going and going.”
She and her husband ran over and immediately realized the woman had died. Adams said the woman's 13-year-old grandson, Tyler Sisk, seemed stunned. He sat in the front passenger's seat.
“I knew right off the bat that grandma wasn’t OK,” Adams said.
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Adams said Indian Sisk, 11, unbuckled her 7-year-old sister, Emma Sisk, and then climbed out a window.
The older girl was bruised.
Jefferry Black, 35, was driving the Jeep that was hit. He was headed home from work. Troopers said he is OK but still have questions for him.
“We haven’t determined, but speed appears to be a factor,” Trooper Chris Locklear, with the North Carolina Highway Patrol, said.
Several neighbors said speed has always been a problem at the intersection.
They said they have seen several deaths, and a group of them argued and got the speed limit changed to 35 miles per hour.
They said the state refused to put a traffic light there. They hope the incident convinces the Department of Transportation to do more.
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