Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
A Lenoir man was critically injured Saturday when the truck he was driving slammed into a gas station, police said.
David Shawn Miller was driving his 2004 Dodge Ram north on Blowing Rock Boulevard about 6:50 p.m. when the truck veered off the right side of the road, police said.
Miller, 34, was not wearing a seat belt when the truck hit a utility pole and sign before colliding with the steel column over the Gas n' Go's pump station.No one else was injured in the wreck.
Miller was taken to Carolinas Medical Center, and police said he will be charged with reckless driving to endanger, driving while impaired and failure to wear a seatbelt.
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