KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. — The Kings Mountain Police Department says a man died early Saturday morning in a wrong-way crash on I-85.
Officers said it happened in the southbound lanes near exit 8 around 1:30 a.m. A passenger car had hit a semi tractor-trailer head-on while traveling north.
The driver who died was identified as 53-year-old George Joseph White Jr. of Charlotte. Police said the tractor-trailer driver had no reportable injuries.
KMPD said the Kings Mountain Fire Department, Cleveland County EMS, and North Carolina State Highway Patrol assisted in the investigation.
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