Four burned, injured in Lenoir County crash
Authorities in Lenoir County linked a wreck Saturday night near the intersection of Kennedy Home Road and U.S. Highway 70 East to the explosion of an apparent meth lab a few minutes earlier.
Posted — UpdatedMembers of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office found four people – two men and two women, all in their 20s – at the scene of a two-car collision suffering from second- and third-degree burns not a result of the wreck, Capt. Jim Oldenburg of the sheriff's office said.
Three people were listed in critical condition Monday at the UNC-Chapel Hill Medical School’s Jaycee Burn Center. They are:
- Crystal Susan Martinez, 25, of 1268 N.C. Highway 58 South in Kinston
- Lea Ann Oglesby, 28, of 197 Bland Howell Road in Kinston
- Samuel Bullock, 25, of 1717 N.C. Highway in West Trenton.
Jason Forbes, 26, of 1268 N.C. Highway 58 South in Kinston was in serious condition.
Officers were responding to a report of an explosion at at 2487 Sutton Loop Road in La Grange when the call came in about the car wreck.
Oldenburg said firefighters found that a utility building had exploded on Sutton Loop Road. A search of the premises by sheriff's deputies revealed evidence that it had been used as a meth lab.
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