Richburg, VA :2 in Chester County motorcycle crash were pinned under burning car on Sunday, July 12th 2015

Two people severely burned in a motorcycle crash Sunday were pinned underneath the burning car that struck them on Interstate 77 near Richburg. On Monday, they were being treated at a North Carolina burn center.Joey Huckeba of Rock Hill and Teresa Miller of Edgemoor were badly injured after Huckeba’s Suzuki motorcycle was hit from behind by a car that subsequently burst into flames.Two helicopters landed on the interstate Sunday evening to fly the victims to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte before both were taken to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in Durham, where family members gathered Monday to await updates on the condition of their loved ones.“I didn’t sleep all last night,” said Charles Murphy, Huckeba’s brother-in-law.Murphy’s wife and her parents traveled to Durham, hoping for the best after Sunday’s accident left him in critical condition.Huckeba and Miller were riding with several other motorcyclists on their way to Columbia around 4:30 p.m. when they were struck from behind by a 2009 Toyota between the rest area and Exit 65. The car then caught fire while both cyclists were pinned underneath it.Phil Cowherd was stopped in traffic for an hour Sunday night while emergency responders tended to victims at the accident scene, and he witnessed the aftermath.“It was like a movie,” he said. “The car was all burned up. It had no paint left on it, no windows.”Traveling back to Charlotte later, Cowherd described passing a 50-foot circle of burned grass in the median where the car had come to rest.Murphy said his brother-in-law had burns across much of his body after the accident, and Miller suffered similar burns. Neither was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, the Highway Patrol said.Huckeba and Miller were riding with a group of several hundred bikers in a “unity ride,” Murphy said, organized after the recent racially-motivated mass shooting at a Charleston church and the controversy around the Confederate flag.“They wanted to do something to try to break up the negativity,” Murphy said, “and show how we can all live with each other.”Both Huckeba and Murphy work at Wikoff Color Corp., an Fort Mill ink manufacturer.The driver of the Toyota, a 35-year-old man from Huntington, W.Va., also was injured in the collision and taken by ambulance to Piedmont Medical Center. His condition was not known Monday. A Highway Patrol spokesman said no charges have been filed in the collision pending the completion of an investigation.Cowherd said several cars came to a standstill in the southbound lane of I-77 as emergency responders cleared space for two helicopters to land on the highway. Cowherd couldn’t see the accident scene from his vantage point near the entrance to the rest area, but he saw medics carrying the burn victims into the helicopters.

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2 in Chester County motorcycle crash were pinned under burning car