By Steve Huffman
shuffman@salisburypost.com
An accident involving a tractor-trailer and a small car resulted in a woman being airlifted for medical care Monday morning.
The accident happened at the intersection of Mooresville and Airport roads. Traffic along busy Mooresville Road was temporarily rerouted to nearby Neel Road.
The investigating N.C. Highway Patrol trooper declined late Monday afternoon to give the name of the woman involved in the accident. He said members of the woman’s family had not been notified.Trooper S.W. Black said the accident remains under investigation and charges are pending.
The Kia the woman was driving was headed east toward Salisbury when it collided with the cab of the tractor-trailer, which was traveling west and turning left onto Airport Road.
Rusty Alexander, chief of Locke Fire Department, said he was told this was the second time in less than two months the woman driving the Kia had been involved in a serious wreck.
Alexander said he was told the woman suffered multiple injuries as a result of Monday’s crash. She was airlifted from Locke Fire Department to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Alexander said the Kia caught fire as a result of the collision. He said bystanders used a fire extinguisher to douse the flames.
A man who was apparently the truck’s driver declined to comment at the scene.