Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 22, 1993 TAG: 9306220259
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: NEW RIVER
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LUMBERTON, N.C. LENGTH: Medium
Witnesses estimated that the truck was going 80 mph, said Trooper R.V. Moore. The trailer rolled over the van, crushed it and dragged it off the road into a pine thicket.
"It threw all the people out of the van," he said. "They were scattered all over the place."
All of the dead were passengers in the van, which carried members of the Now Faith Church of Deliverance in Montezuma, Ga., said Edwin Fox of Winder, Ga. His father-in-law, James Haddock, is the pastor of the church, which has 40 members.
Fox and Haddock were in Georgia when the accident occurred.
The van was struck from behind Sunday night on Interstate 95, about seven miles south of Lumberton and about 10 miles north of the South Carolina border.
The church members who were in the van planned to attend a national youth congress in Bedford this week, Haddock said.
The minister's daughter, Lashanda Haddock, 21, of Bethlehem, Ga., was among those killed. His wife, two sons and a granddaughter were injured.
The others killed were Freddie Lee Dixon Jr., 9, of Roberta, Ga., and Katrice Redding, 15, of Atlanta.
Dixon's father, Freddie Dixon, 35, had been driving the van. He and 12 others in the van were injured.
The driver of the truck, Bruce Don Green, 56, of Silver Springs, Fla., also was injured.
The truck was owned by Para-Marine Inc. of Lake Wales, Fla., state patrol Sgt. Tim Thomas said.
by CNB