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Police: Speed caused fatal accident
BY PAT KIMBROUGH
ENTERPRISE
STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Excessive
speed appears to be the cause of a traffic accident in which two people
were killed Sunday night, police said.
Javier Quiroz Garcia, 25, was driving
a white 1995 Chevrolet Camaro an estimated 66 mph on a stretch of Westchester Drive
where the speed limit is 45 mph when he lost control of the car, veered
across the road and collided with a delivery truck in the oncoming lane, according
to High Point
police.
Garcia, of 238 Phillips Ave., and his
front-seat passenger, Miguel Sandora, 22, of 135 Shell Drive in Greensboro, were killed instantly, police
said.
The driver of the truck, Stephen
Joseph Lentini, 41, of Longcreek
Drive, complained of soreness and was treated
and released from High Point
Regional Hospital,
police said. According to police, Garcia was driving east on Westchester
Drive around 9 p.m., when, as he approached Phillips Avenue, a car pulled
out of the Westchester Commons shopping center into traffic, and Garcia
swerved to avoid the car.
“Because Garcia was going so
fast, he had to swerve to avoid (the car),” said Lt. Angela Tackett, a police
spokeswoman. “The car was not at fault that pulled out.” After swerving, the
Camaro went into an out-of-control skid and crossed the middle turn lane of
the road into oncoming traffic, police said. The driver’s side of the car
slammed into a 2001 GMC Party Rental Source delivery truck that was traveling
westbound.
No charges are expected to be filed in
connection with the wreck.
pkimbrough@hpe.com
|888-3531 Javier Quiroz Garcia, 25, was driving a white 1995 Chevrolet
Camaro an estimated 66 mph on a stretch of Westchester Drive where the speed
limit is 45 mph.
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