Monday, April 7, 2008
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
A Newton teenager died and his father was seriously injured Sunday afternoon when their car sped off the road and hit a utility pole, authorities said.
Shavonne Lesha Parson, 19, was driving a 1994 Honda Accord south on Sigmon Dairy Road shortly after 3:30 p.m. when he entered a curve near Shady Lane and veered off the right side of the road, Newton police said.
Parson was going about 70 mph in a 45 mph zone, police said, when he tried steering back onto the roadway. He lost control of the car, and the Honda flew through the air before hitting the pole, police said.
His father, 48-year-old Leander Parson, was sitting in the front passenger seat and was seriously injured. He was taken to Catawba Valley Medical Center and is being treated in the neurological intensive care unit, police said.
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