Officials say a Gaston County police officer was responding to the incident, with their blue lights and siren on, when the collision occurred. The citizen died and the officer was taken to a local hospital.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol said a marked Harnett County Sheriff’s Office Dodge Charger traveling east on Darroch Road crossed the center line and crashed into a tractor trailer that was heading west. The Charger then hit a Dodge Durango.
The Georgia State Patrol reports that Deputy Timothy Tavarus Rivers, 40, was responding to a call to assist another officer around 10:09 p.m. when his patrol vehicle crossed the center line.