A Galax man died at the scene of a Jan. 23 wreck in North Carolina, after a tractor-trailer’s brakes failed and struck his pickup head-on.
Glenn Roy Shumate, 68, of Forest Lane in Galax, died instantly, according to a N.C. Highway Patrol report.
The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. in the sharp “Snowbird Curve” on N.C. 89, just south of the Virginia state line — the scene of numerous past accidents.
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