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A church van was involved in a wreck on I-40 near Benson around 8:45 a.m. Saturday morning. As a result fifteen people were treated at local hospitals.
According to a highway Patrol trooper the 15-passenger van lost control after one of its tires blew out. The van was leaving Holy Ground Praise Temple in Raleigh, crossed the center median and overturned twice on westbound lanes of the highway.
57 year old Sandra Lark, was injured critically, but all 15 people were released from the hospital Saturday afternoon. Six of those people who were injured were 15 years old or younger, and the remaining nine were at least 44 years old.
“I just remember the car swerving and when it flipped over, everybody was screaming,” said passenger Kalee Mosley. “I remember that a whole bunch of people came and helped me and said ‘are you OK? Do you want some water?'”
All lanes of I-40 westbound were shut down for 90 minutes following the wreck. The lanes reopened at about 10 a.m. Pastor Allen Curtis described the crash by saying “All of a sudden – we did not hear a pop or anything, but the back of the van just started swerving.”
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