By MES Dispatch Staff
The Briefing
- A Piney Grove fire truck overturned on Piney Grove Road near Warren Road north of Kernersville, North Carolina on Tuesday morning, June 24, injuring two firefighters who were aboard.
- The truck was traveling north with lights and sirens activated at approximately 8:45 a.m. when it ran off the right side of the road in a curve; the driver overcorrected, causing the truck to overturn onto the left side of the roadway.
- The truck’s windshield detached during the crash and struck a man who was weeding in his yard adjacent to the roadway, injuring him as well.
- All three injured individuals—the two firefighters and the bystander—were transported to a hospital with injuries that authorities described as non-life-threatening.
- The North Carolina State Highway Patrol responded to and investigated the apparatus crash.
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. — Two firefighters and a bystander were injured Tuesday morning when a Piney Grove fire truck overturned on Piney Grove Road near Warren Road north of Kernersville, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The fire truck was traveling northbound on Piney Grove Road with emergency lights and sirens activated at approximately 8:45 a.m. when the vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway while navigating a curve. The driver overcorrected the steering, causing the truck to cross the roadway and overturn onto its left side.
During the crash, the truck’s windshield separated from the vehicle and struck a man who was performing yard work—specifically weeding—in an adjacent residential yard. The detached windshield resulted in injury to the bystander.
Two firefighters aboard the truck sustained injuries from the overturn. All three individuals—the two firefighters and the bystander—were transported to a hospital for treatment of injuries described as non-life-threatening by authorities.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol investigated the apparatus crash. No additional details regarding the specific cause of the driver’s loss of control or the extent of injuries sustained by any of the three individuals have been released.