BURKE COUNTY, N.C. — At least one person was killed in a crash on U.S. 64 in Burke County on Monday, state troopers confirmed.
Emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 64 near Baker Farm Road, south of Morganton, around 7 a.m. Monday.
According to North Carolina State Highway Patrol, 31-year-old Aaron Nicholas Langley of Ellensboro, North Carolina, was driving a 2000 Nissan Xterra northbound on U.S. 64 when he reported tried to pass another northbound vehicle. However, he hit a southbound 2020 Freightliner utility truck head on, which caused his vehicle to catch on fire and trap him inside.
Langley died from his injuries at the scene. The utility truck driver, later identified as 25-year-old Jacob Andrew Christenbury of Claremont, North Carolina, was not injured in the crash.
U.S. 64 was closed in both directions for more than three hours while troopers investigated the crash and crews worked to clear the scene.
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