MORGANTON, N.C. (WBTV) - State troopers charged a driver Tuesday for their role in a crash that sent a vehicle crashing into a roadside lemonade stand, injuring three little girls.
It happened Tuesday, June 10, along Conley Road near Highway 64 in Morganton, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. “It was traumatizing,” Jessica Tallent, whose daughter was injured, said. “I thought my daughter was dead. I thought all three of these girls were dead.”
Tallent’s daughter was released from the hospital later Tuesday.
The two other girls were taken by a helicopter to a hospital in critical condition, state troopers said. Their condition Tuesday night was unclear. “The kids were just trying to have fun, summertime, trying to sell lemonade. To them money is something special to them,” David Denton, whose 7-year-old niece was seriously hurt, said. “Then you see the wreck. That’s what really gets to your head. It’s traumatizing, just really upsets you.”
Tire marks in the grass at the crash site show where the vehicle ran off the road, and directly into the girls’ lemonade stand. The crash also took out a sign.
Tallent said this incident should be a wake up call to drivers across the area. “Watch where you’re going and I don’t care if you don’t see anything coming either way, look again, because this could have been so much farther worse than what it was,” Tallent said.
Witnesses said two vehicles were involved in the accident. Troopers have charged one of the drivers with failure to yield the right of way causing serious bodily injury, according to North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
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