GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — Police have announced that no criminal charges will be filed in a fatal wreck involving a city of Belmont truck.
Belmont Interim Police Chief Basil Marett says 47-year-old Eddie R. Pullen of Gastonia was killed Friday morning when a pickup truck he was a passenger in collided with utility poles being hauled by a city of Belmont truck.
Channel 9's partners at The Gaston Gazette report that the district attorney's office determined the cause of the wreck did not rise to a level that warranted charges.
Authorities say that when the unidentified city truck driver began turning right, the utility poles in the back of the truck swung and hit the car Pullen was riding in, causing the driver, John Alexander, to lose control of the vehicle and crash into a tree, killing Pullen.
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