TRAGIDY:19 years killed in car crash speeding in madison county NC resident

State law enforcement officials say the driver involved in a fatal Madison County crash will face at least one felony charge.

A sergeant with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) told News 13 on Wednesday that 46-year-old Bradley Hunter Johnson, of Weaverville, is going to be charged withfelony death by motor vehicle and misdemeanor driving while impaired after a wreck occurredalong Interstate 26 on March 11, 2024.

NCSHP said around 4:30 p.m. that day, a Ford Focus driven byJohnson was traveling east on I-26 “at a high rate of speed, weaving in and out of the travel lanes” when he lost control near mile marker 11.5. Authorities say the Focus veered off the right side of the roadway, hit the embankment, then overturned several times before stopping on the right side of the road.

Troopers said 28-year-old Jared Alan Wilson, ofMars Hill, who was the front-seat passenger in the Focus, was ejected during the crash and pronounced dead at the scene.

Both Johnson and a rear-seat passenger, who NCSHP confirmed is a minor, were taken to Mission Hospital following the crash in serious but stable condition.

Johnson is not yet in custody as he is still in the hospital, officials said on Wednesday.

Bystanders to last weekend’s Las Vegas-area crash that left nine people dead flooded 911 lines with grim and urgent reports about what they were seeing.

North Las Vegas police released audio this week of the more than a dozen calls that came in about the tragedy.

“There’s bodies everywhere,” one person told emergency responders. The bystander went on to describe the “horrible accident,” according to FOX 5 in Las Vegas.

A mother died and her two children were taken to the hospital on Friday, May 31, after a single-car crash in the Town of Lenox, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.

The two children, a 6-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, were flown to Upstate Hospital, and the mother, 36-year-old Candis Relyea from Canastota, was taken to the Oneida Hospital where she later died due to her injuries.

Both children have serious injuries and one is in critical condition, according to the sheriff’s office.

The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. along New Boston Road, near Seeber Road, when the minivan Relyea was driving hit a pole and then a tree.

TRAGIDY:19 years killed in car crash speeding in madison county NC resident

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