1 dead, 1 charged after Interstate 40 crash<\/p>\n
Published 7:52 pm Saturday, May 9, 2026<\/p>\n
A Morganton man is dead and another man has been charged after a crash in Davie County on Friday.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at approximately 4:20 p.m. near mile marker 170 on Interstate 40, said a spokesperson for the N.C. State Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
A Sterling Acterra, a large truck, driven by 59-year-old Michael Ray McGaha, of Kernersville was driving east on Interstate 40 when its front left tire blew out, causing it to cross the center median into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n
The truck was struck by a Ram truck driven by 55-year-old Ronny Edward Lowe Jr., of Morganton, and both came to rest on the shoulder of the highway, said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Lowe was pronounced dead at the scene. McGaha was taken to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist with serious but not life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
McGaha has been charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle, said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 charged after Interstate 40 crash Published 7:52 pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 A Morganton man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-634048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}