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I disagree with your definition of the word "collision". You do not have to hit or be hit by another car to have a collision. The car could have collided with a deer as was previously mentioned. I live in eastern NC and the deer are very overpopulated. You can see them on the road in broad daylight and the early morning hours would be a time when a deer could easily have suddenly bounded out of the woods and run in front of their car. The car is definitely reported to have collided with a tree which could have caused the damage I saw on Greta's program. At this point, we are all speculating as to what caused them to leave the highway, but falling asleep at the wheel causes your foot to really press on the accelerator and they could have left the road and hit the tree with quite some force. The impact could have injured or stunned them enough so that they were unable to escape from the car in time.

A similar thing happened to the daughter of one of my sweet elderly friends. The car ran off the road and landed upside down in a drainage ditch that only had a couple of feet of water in it and she tragically drowned before anyone found the car - and it was right off the side of the road. I don't know if the Freepers remember the severe flooding that NC received in 1999 as a result of Hurricane Floyd, but the Rocky Mount-Nash County area was one of the most severely affected areas due to the Tar River and its many tributaries.