Three die in wreck near Rockingham
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From Wire Reports
Published: July 24, 2008
HAMLET, N.C. (AP) _ Three people have died in a wreck near Rockingham as they were returning to Surry County from Myrtle Beach, S.C.
North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper M.R. Leach says the sport utility vehicle they were in flipped over on the U.S. 74 bypass Tuesday afternoon.
The driver, 21-year-old Justin Andrew Tate of Mount Airy, 21-year-old Crystal Nicole Newsome of Mount Airy and 22-year-old Brittany Nicole Hiatt of Evans, Ga., died in the wreck. Hiatt was originally from Mount Airy.
Leach told the Winston-Salem Journal says witnesses told troopers the SUV was traveling considerably faster than the 70 mph speed limit on the highway.
Leach says the vehicle ran off the left side of the road and Tate overcorrected and the SUV flipped four or five times, went over a guard rail and down a steep embankment.
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