Sanford, NC — Earlier in March, a man from Fayetteville was killed several miles north of Spring Lake (near Sanford) after his pickup truck was in a wreck with an 18-wheeler. Police said that this happened at about 7:45 a.m. on the morning of Friday, February 28, 2015 and identified the man as Saul Vasquez, 30.
The accident happened just south of Sanford, about 10 miles north of Highway 24. Police said that Vasquez was driving his white pickup truck north along Highway 87 that morning when he was involved in a head-on crash with an 18-wheeler truck that was owned by Stout Trucking of Greensboro.
The accident trapped Vasquez inside his truck and he died at the scene, while the truck driver wasn’t harmed. The truck driver, identified as Dale Holt, later told police that Vasquez’s truck had slid on some black ice that had frozen over part of the highway and caused him to lose control.
This was supposed to be investigated some more, but it’s not clear if it was.
Map of the Accident
Commentary:
In doing some research about this accident and the trucking company that owned this truck, I had the feeling that I remembered the name Stout Trucking from somewhere. As it turns out, one of their drivers caused a major accident in Tobaccoville last October when he crashed his 18-wheeler into the back of stopped traffic and killed 3 people, injuring 8. The news later said it that 2 died and 1 was in critical condition, but the DOT said 3.
Now, that doesn’t have any bearing on what happened in this accident, but it does make me a little wary of the details reported by the news. After all, we just have the truck driver’s word that it was the other driver who lost control and swerved. Was an investigation done to check the facts? I’m not saying that we should be suspicious of this driver, but there should at least be due diligence done for the sake of the victim and his family.
— Grossman Law Offices
