ROCKINGHAM — Two people were flown to a Charlotte hospital following a Sunday night wreck in East Rockingham.
Trooper Clint Greene with the N.C. Highway Patrol said a Scion passenger car was travelling east toward Hamlet when it crossed the center line, striking a tree near 455 Mill Road — close to the intersection with Safie First Avenue — on the driver’s side and spinning roughly 45 degrees after impact.
The front bumper of the car was near the tree, the rear bumper was on the other side of the road.
Both the driver and passenger were taken to FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital from the scene and later flown to Carolinas Regional Medical Center in Charlotte.
Greene said early Monday afternoon that their last-known conditions were listed as critical.
Multiple agencies — the Rockingham and East Rockingham fire departments, Rockingham Rescue and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office — responded to the wreck with sirens blaring after the call went out around 8:29 p.m.
Traffic on the east side was diverted down Church Street.
A woman struggled with first responders, trying to get to one of the ambulances before it left the scene, saying her son was involved in the wreck.
Greene did not yet have a positive identification on either of the victims or know the extent of their injuries.
“There’s still a lot of unknowns,” he said.
While he added that speed was a factor, the trooper had no estimate on how fast the car was going. He said that whether or not drugs or alcohol contributed to the crash is also unknown at this time.
However, Greene did say that troopers had located a second possible vehicle that may have been involved and that the Highway Patrol reconstruction team will probably be called in.
The wreck is still under investigation.
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