SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. — A truck driver has been hospitalized with severe burns and other injuries after their trailer exploded during a crash on Monday, April 15, along Highway 13 and Lee Allen Pope Lane in North Carolina.
According to the Spivey Corner Fire Department, the trailer was full of frozen turkeys.
Authorities said the trailer’s back wheels caught fire, which caused an explosion.
The truck belongs to M&M Transportation out of Fisher, West Virginia.
Further details about the incident weren’t released.
Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and raised in East Texas, John Worthen returned to his home state to attend college in 1998 and decided to make his life in The Natural State. Worthen is a 20-year veteran of the journalism industry and has covered just about every topic there is. He has a passion for writing and telling stories. He has worked as a beat reporter and bureau chief for a statewide newspaper and as managing editor of a regional newspaper in Arkansas. Additionally, Worthen has been a prolific freelance journalist for two decades, and has been published in several travel magazines and on travel websites.
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