The Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly crash in Hickory after a pickup truck went off a bridge. The accident happened along 24th Street Place Northeast.
After the driver didn’t return home Friday morning, they were found in an overturned vehicle in Snow Creek.
The roadway in not state maintained. A bridge is out with no barriers declaring the section of roadway to be closed.
According to a media report, the Highway Patrol has contacted both the State Department of Transportation and the City of Hickory to place barriers on the roadway.
Update: The victim has been identified as 47-year-old Philip John Paxson of Hickory.