Staff report
A Hamlet man and business owner and a Charlotte woman were killed in a Sunday head-on collision along U.S. Route 74 on the eastern edge of Richmond County near Scotland County.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol said William Kirby Bledsoe, 77, and Caitlyn Taylor Patton, 25, were killed when Bledsoe’s truck struck a sedan in which Patton was a passenger at about 3 a.m.
Patton was riding in the front seat at the time of the crash, according to the accident report.
Bledsoe was owner of Bill’s Backhoe Service.
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