10/20/06

Police say 85-year-old was killed after driving wrong way

Friday, Oct. 20, 2006

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer
Staff Writer

LENOIR A man was killed Wednesday after he drove his pickup truck into oncoming traffic in Lenoir, police said.

Richard Harris Graham, 85, of Lenoir turned out of the driveway from his Harper Avenue office shortly after 5 p.m. and into the path of a Ford Explorer, said Lenoir police officer David Ingle. Graham died before officers arrived, Ingle said.

The driver of the Explorer, 21-year-old Sheena Dean Nelson of Lenoir, was treated and released from Caldwell Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. Police are still investigating the wreck.

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