Man killed in crash near Biscoe from South Carolina

A South Carolina man was fatally injured when his car ran under a tractor-trailer on N.C. 24/27 near Biscoe on Tuesday night at about 7 p.m.
Thomas Chris McNeal, 42, 214 McNeal Road, Chesterfield, S.C., has been identified as the fatality.Trooper M.C. McGaugh, N.C. Highway Patrol, said McNeal’s family in South Carollina and relatives in Greensboro were notified Tuesday night.McNeal was driving a 1999 Buick east toward Biscoe when his vehicle struck a tractor-trailer that was completing a left turn from N.C. 24/27 onto Lamonds Welding Road, where the driver lived.
The driver of the 2009 International truck, Bernie Lee Goodwin, 78, 143 Lamonds Welding Road, told McGaugh he had stopped in the middle turn lane headed west and waited for traffic to clear before making his turn. Goodwin reported he heard and felt a thump on the rear of his trailer when the vehicle ran under the back right side of the trailer, just behind the rear tires.
After impact, the Buick traveled approximately 210 feet off the right side of the road and stopped in a clump of trees. The impact peeled back most the top of the Buick and McNeal, who probably died on impact, was trapped inside.
Trooper McGaugh said the eastbound lane of the four-lane highway was covered with debris and it took some time for Montgomery EMS and fire departments to free McNeal from the vehicle.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office handled traffic control. The eastbound lane was closed and the traffic that was backed up was turned around to take an alternate route.
A witness traveling behind McNeal’s Buick before the crash told McGaugh that the Buick had just passed him at a high rate of speed and, within seconds, he saw smoke from the collision.
On Wednesday, McGaugh went back to the scene and calculated that the Buick was traveling at least 80 mph when it hit the truck.