North Carolina State Highway Patrol: 1 seriously injured in motorcycle crash in Wilkes County (2024)

COMING UP ALL RIGHT. SOUNDS GOOD MICHELLE. THANK YOU. AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, NASCAR FANS ARE VERY HAPPY TO. THE SUN CAME OUT TODAY AS THEY GEAR UP FOR THE BIG RACE TONIGHT. OUR JOSHUA DAVIS SPOKE TO SOME OF THEM THIS AFTERNOON FROM NORTH WILKESBORO SPEEDWAY. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY TO RACE. AND WHILE THE NASCAR 2024 ALL-STAR RACE AT THE NORTH WILKESBORO SPEEDWAY IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE, FANS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO ONE HECK OF A FINALE AND EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN REASON TO BE EXCITED. FOR SOME FOLKS LIKE BOBBY PHIPPS, IT’S THEIR FIRST NASCAR EXPERIENCE EVER. MY BUDDY RODNEY OFFERED ME THE TICKET FOR TODAY. HOW COULD I TURN IT DOWN? FIRST NASCAR RACE EVER IN HIS HOMETOWN. WE’RE JUST LOOKING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME TODAY. I KNOW THIS IS THE BUT WE NEED A REGULAR RACE HERE AT NORTH WILKESBORO ON THE SCHEDULE. OTHER THAN THE ALL-STAR RACE, THIS IS WHERE NASCAR BEGAN RIGHT HERE. OTHER FANS SUCH AS JAMIE AND TRAVIS CHILDRESS SEE THE ALL STAR RACE AS THE BEGINNING OF A FAMILY TRADITION. YEAH, LOCAL GREW UP AT THIS TRACK. UM, WATCHING THE RACES, COMING HERE AS A KID. SO IT’S REALLY SPECIAL TO, UH, TO BRING HIM AND MAKE THOSE MEMORIES WITH HIM AS WELL. AND THEY JUST REPAVED THIS TRACK. IT LOOKS AMAZING. AND I HOPE TO KEEP ON COMING. I EVEN SPOKE TO DANIEL FELDER AND JEANNIE ROBINSON, WHO FLEW ALL THE WAY DOWN FROM BUFFALO, NEW YORK. BOTH DIDN’T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT NASCAR, BUT ARE WALKING AWAY AS FANS. ABSOLUTELY. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW NASCAR LIKE NASCAR STARTED HERE. LIKE THAT WAS THE WHOLE THING. I HEARD THAT SO MANY TIMES. BUT IT LIKE, THIS WAS WHERE ALL OF THIS RACING STUFF REALLY STARTED RIGHT HERE. I HONESTLY WANT TO TRY, LIKE MAYBE A DAYTONA, MAYBE A TALLADEGA, BUT LIKE ONE OF THE BIG ONES. BUT THIS WAS THIS WAS GOOD TO LIKE DIP OUR TOE IN AND LIKE GET TO EXPERIENCE IT REGARDLESS OF THE REASON, YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT FOR EVERY FAN HERE, NEW OR OLD, THE LEGEND LIVES ON AND NORTH WILKESBORO. I’M JOSHUA DAVIS FOR WXII 12 NEWS. THE RIGHT BRAND 250 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES RACE WAS POSTPONED UNTIL LATE THIS MORNING. OUR CHANEL PORTER WILL HAVE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THAT RACE COMING UP IN SPORTS, AND WE ALSO HAVE YOU COVERED WITH ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW. SO JUST SCAN THIS QR CODE ON YOUR SCREEN USING YOUR SMARTPHONE OR TABLET, AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO OUR COMPLETE ALL STAR RACE GUIDE. A MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DEAD, AND TWO OTHER CHILDREN HURT AFTER A SHOOTING IN CASWELL COUNTY. DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO A SHOTS FIRED CALL AT A HOME ON CHERRY GROVE ROAD AND REIDSVILLE JUST BEFORE SIX LAST NIGHT AT THE SCENE, DEPUTIES FOUND 37 YEAR OLD DANIEL HINES AND HER CHILD DEAD. HER TWO OTHER CHILDREN WERE TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL BUT ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. THE CASWELL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE SUSPECT, ANTHONY SILER, LEFT BEFORE DEPUTIES GOT THERE. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE TELLS US SILER WAS LATER STOPPED BY ALAMANCE COUNTY DEPUTIES ON RALEIGH STREET AND BURLINGTON BEFORE HE DIED BY SUICIDE. DEPUTIES BELIEVE THIS WAS NOT A RANDOM ACT, BUT COULD NOT CONFIRM THE CONNECTION BETWEEN A SUSPECT AND VICTIMS. A MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE DEATH OF TAYLOR TERRY WILL FACE A JUDGE TOMORROW. JAQUAN FAIR WAS ARRESTED BY WINSTON-SALEM POLICE ON FRIDAY. IT COMES MORE THAN THREE YEARS AFTER TERRY’S DEATH. TERRY WAS FOUND DEAD ON VALENTINE’S DAY IN 2021 ON COLISEUM DRIVE IN WINSTON-SALEM. RIGHT NOW, FAIR IS IN JAIL WITHOUT BOND. AGAIN, HIS FIRST COURT APPEARANCE IS SET FOR TOMORROW. ON TUESDAY, A MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD TO HONOR LATE LAW ENFORCEMENT IN GUILFORD COUNTY WHO HAVE MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE. GREENSBORO POLICE SERGEANT DALE NIX WAS 50 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS SHOT TO DEATH. CONFRONTING A GROUP OF PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF STEALING BEER FROM A COLFAX CONVENIENCE STORE IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR. THE MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BEGIN AT 11 A.M. AT THE OLD GUILFO