Police: Collision with truck kills woman who ran red light

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

A Newton woman died Wednesday when she ran a red light on U.S. 321 and collided with a tractor-trailer, authorities said.

Martha Ann Cook, 56, was driving a 1999 Subaru north on U.S. 321 shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday and drove through a red light at the intersection of Second Avenue S.W., said Capt. Clyde Deal of the Hickory Police Department.

A tractor-trailer driven by Robert Swingle of Maryland was turning east onto Second Avenue from the highway and slammed into the driver-side door of Cook's car, Deal said. Cook was taken to Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, where she died.

Neither Swingle nor a passenger in Cook's car were injured.

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