KENLY – Five people died in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 near Kenly. The accident was reported around 2:00pm Wednesday near the 113 mile marker in Wilson County, just north of the Johnston County line.
A total of three tractor trailers and two passenger cars were involved.
According to the State Highway Patrol, there was a northbound lane closure for a median mulching project. Vehicles were slowing and merging into the right lane.
A semi slammed into the slowing moving vehicles. A fire broke out following the collision.
Three occupants in one car and two in another car died at the scene.
All three tractor trailer drivers were sent to the hospital with minor injuries.
Emergency units from Wilson and Johnston counties responded to the collision, which closed northbound lanes of I-95 for several hours.
The State Highway Patrol Accident Reconstruction Team was dispatched to the scene to assist Wilson County troopers with the investigation and to gather evidence.
Praying for the families! Those semi truck drivers need to pay attention! Lives taken because of carelessness!
Work/construction zone again. When will it ever stop? I hope the ncdot sleeps well knowing how many deaths have occured under their watch. Time to ban construction zones, tractor trailers, cars, etc. That seems to be the prevailing logic.
Ditto. I can remember a time when I95 was two lanes and no Jersey barriers, wide open medians and shoulders….and a lot less people were killed. Shoot, traffic wasn’t even bad. What you got a few years back was a bunch of degree toting engineers that wanted to call the highway system obsolete or outdated. Seemed to be working fine from what I saw. On top of that it’s 4 way stops and roundabouts. Solutions looking for a problem is DOT’s greatest job skill.
Sad that we don’t live in a time where they could put up a transponder at a construction site that would make vehicles slow automatically to a safe speed once in range of it. I know people would say somehow that’s a violation of their rights but slowing your vehicle seems to be a real problem for people nowadays. I was on highway 70 the other day and everyone was flying past me at 70+ mph sadly with a trooper leading the pack.
You need to have road construction. Our roads need it bad, but the thing is, on interstates the work should be on weekday nights like required in many states. This accident is a horror and could have and should have been prevented. I do pray for all the family’s involved.