Truck ripped in half by train in Kings Mountain

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. — A train barreled into a tractor-trailer that was carrying cotton in Kings Mountain on Friday morning.

There have been several similar wrecks at the crossing in the past few years.

The driver and passenger in the truck involved in Friday’s crash jumped out before the collision and weren’t injured. Bales of cotton from the truck went everywhere in the crash.