Truck, Buick collide, three people sent to hospital
Published 10:36 pm Thursday, September 26, 2019
An accident occurred Tuesday in Red Cross involving a tri-axle truck and a Buick that sent three people to the hospital.
At 11:30 a.m., Willard Lilly Jr. of Gold Hill was traveling west in his 2001 Buick along N.C. Highway 24-27 when he ran a red light and was T-boned by Robert Jernigan of Kernersville, who was driving his 2014 Freightliner truck south along Ridgecrest Road, according to N.C. State Highway Patrol Trooper A.C. McLester.
Gary Gene Gulledge and Jonathan Bradley Gulledge of Kannapolis, who were passengers in Lilly’s car, were airlifted to Atrium Health in Charlotte and are still in critical condition. Lilly was taken to Atrium Health-Stanly and was later released. Jernigan had no injuries.
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Chris Miller has been with the SNAP since January 2019. He is a graduate of NC State and received his Master's in Journalism from the University of Maryland. He previously wrote for the Capital News Service in Annapolis, where many of his stories on immigration and culture were published in national papers via the AP wire.
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