IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. — A man is dead after his car crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer in Iredell County.
According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, around noon on Saturday afternoon, a 2018 Ford Fiesta was heading west on I-40 when the driver did not slow down in time and crashed into a tractor-trailer that was stopped because of traffic.
Wesley Mallory, a 46-year-old Morganton resident who was driving the Fiesta, died from his injuries at the site of the crash.
The tractor-trailer driver, Calvin Franklin, was not injured in the crash.
Both drivers were wearing seatbelts and NCSHP reports that impairment does not seem to be a factor in the crash.
The area on I-40 where the crash occurred was closed for about two hours following the incident.
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