One dead after chain-reaction crash on I40/I-85

MEBANE, NC (WTVD) — A series of chain-reaction accidents involving a Greyhound bus, a North Carolina Highway Patrol SUV, a fire department SUV, and multiple other vehicles left one dead and others hurt Wednesday morning.

The crashes began just after 10 a.m. along northbound Interstate 40/85 near the outlet mall close to Mebane.

Witnesses told ABC11 that the Mebane Fire Department was on the scene of a disabled vehicle when a vehicle hydroplaned into the back of the fire chief’s Chevy Tahoe. A woman in the car, 33-year-old Tiffany Jennings, was killed.

Then, as a NC Highway Patrol trooper sat in his SUV blocking traffic for the crash, he was hit from behind by the Greyhound bus.

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