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Nov122007
Oct. 26 Wreck Claims Fourth Life
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 3:52AM The wreck west of WIlkesboro last month that killed three people has taken the life of the fourth woman involved. Cheryl Cotter Simon was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in critical condition follwoing the wreck on U-S 421 October 26th.
Her husband Tom, and their their friends, George Wiggins and his wife Johnnie were killed in the wreck. According to the highway patrol, the truck was going downhill 12 miles west of Wilkesboro when it overturned and slid across a grassy median at the base of the mountain, hitting the SUV driven by Tom Simon. Estimates of the semi's speed at the time were about 80 miles an hour.
The truck driver, Curtis Isaac Mondy, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with three counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle and one count of reckless driving. Mondy was treated at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and officials in Florida revoked his probation on a sex-offense charge after the wreck. He is now in jail in Pinellas County, Fla., after failing to report the wreck to his probation officer, according to a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections.
Her husband Tom, and their their friends, George Wiggins and his wife Johnnie were killed in the wreck. According to the highway patrol, the truck was going downhill 12 miles west of Wilkesboro when it overturned and slid across a grassy median at the base of the mountain, hitting the SUV driven by Tom Simon. Estimates of the semi's speed at the time were about 80 miles an hour.
The truck driver, Curtis Isaac Mondy, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with three counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle and one count of reckless driving. Mondy was treated at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and officials in Florida revoked his probation on a sex-offense charge after the wreck. He is now in jail in Pinellas County, Fla., after failing to report the wreck to his probation officer, according to a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections.
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