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Multi-vehicle wreck
brings no charges
BY PAT KIMBROUGH
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – No charges have been filed in a weekend traffic
accident involving six vehicles, police said.
The crash occurred about 1:20 p.m. Sunday at Lexington Avenue and N. Main Street.
Three motorists and a passenger were taken to High Point Regional
Hospital but their
injuries were not serious.
The motorists involved gave differing accounts of what happened and
police apparently could not determine who was
responsible, said Lt. Ken Steele, a police spokesman.
The chain-reaction wreck was started after a 2007 Toyota passenger
car driven by Meredith Dancer, 18, of Belmont, traveling south on N. Main
Street, collided with a 1994 Nissan passenger car driven by Patricia Cathey Smalls, 51, of Mossy Meadow Drive, at the
intersection, according to the police department’s report on the crash.
Smalls told police she began driving east on W. Lexington Avenue through the intersection
when the stoplight turned green and that was the last thing she remembered,
the report stated.
Dancer told officers that the last time she looked at the stoplight
in her direction it was green, and as she was going through the
intersection, she saw Smalls’ car and collided with it, according to the repor t.
The impact caused the Nissan to collide with a 1994 Ford passenger
car on N. Main Street that was waiting at the intersection and facing
northbound.
The collision pushed the Ford into two other vehicles.
The driver of the Ford and the other two vehicles told police that
the stoplight in their direction of travel had just turned red, the report
stated.
After the initial collision, the Toyota collided with a church bus at the
intersection. The bus belonged to Gospel Light
Baptist Church
in Kernersville and was carrying about 30 children.
No one on the bus was inj u red
pkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531
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