Via: WRAL.com
State troopers charged a 65-year-old man they say was driving slowly on Interstate 40 in Sampson County, causing a wreck early this morning. Troopers say that John Henry Watkins was driving a pickup truck at 10 mph in the left lane of I-40 East through Faison around 1 a.m. The driver of a Honda Accord driver saw Watkins’ truck in the lane ahead of him. Both drivers tried to swerve into the right lane at the same time,The vehicles collided, and Watkins’ pickup ran off the road and overturned.Watkins was charged with impeding traffic and failure to comply with a driver’s license restriction limiting him to driving in daytime hours. Both drivers are expected to be OK.
