A Mooresville man is dead and his wife is at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
in critical condition after a motorcycle accident Saturday evening. N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper R.N. Hillard would not release
the names of the Mooresville couple until he notified family members.
At 7:02 p.m., the couple were riding a 1990
Harley-Davidson motorcycle on Juniper Road near the drag strip in Mooresville.
Neither wore helmets.
About three-tenths of a mile across the Rowan
County line, the man drove the motorcycle into a sharp curve headed north. Hillard said
the motorcycle veered left of center and struck a pickup truck head on.
The man, 44, died at the scene. The woman was
airlifted to the Winston-Salem hospital.
Hillard said the man probably was going 65 mph in
a 55 mph zone.
Daniel Overcash, 21, of 1780 Wilkinson Road in
Mooresville, was driving the 1990 Ford truck. He and his passenger both were wearing seat
belts.
His passenger, Tabatha Cox, 22, of 455 Saw Road,
China Grove, was transported to Lake Norman Regional. Overcash also was taken to the
hospital, but he suffered no injuries, Hillard said.
The truck sustained about $4,000 damage. The
motorcycle, worth between $10,000 to $11,000, was totaled.
