Columbus County,NC : 11-year-old killed in Columbus Co. crash on November, Monday 20th 2017
Columbus County, North Carolina
An 11-year-old boy was killed in a car accident in Columbus County on Monday afternoon.
According to Trooper Baxley with the State Highway Patrol, Joshua Chay Porter, 11, died in a two-vehicle wreck at US 701 and Peacock Road around 4:20 p.m. Monday.
Baxley said the car Porter was riding in, a 1998 Chevy Cavalier driven by his mother, Crystal Matthews, was traveling west on 701 when a 1999 Dodge pickup truck driven by Camarino Barron ran a stop sign and hit the Chevy in the passenger side. Porter was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Matthews and Barron were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Barron is charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle.
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11-year-old killed in Columbus Co. crash