IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. — State troopers were investigating a head-on crash that left one person dead and another with serious injuries early Wednesday morning in Iredell County.
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Emergency responders were called just after 5:20 a.m. to the wreck on Old Mountain Road near Marie-Duke Lane, just southwest of Statesville.
The Highway Patrol said the driver of a taxi cab was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver of the other vehicle was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Both victims were men but their names have not been released.
Old Mountain Road is closed in both directions while troopers investigate.
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