Name: Richard L. Sales
Rank: Fire Chief
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 31
Date of Incident: 04/08/2018
Time of Incident: 0930hrs
Date of Death: 04/08/2018
Fire Department: Reynolds Volunteer Fire Department
Address: 235 Charlotte HWY, Asheville, NC 28803
Fire Department Chief: Assistant Fire Chief Kenneth Ledford
Incident Description: Fire Chief Richard L. Sales was killed in a single vehicle crash while traveling on fire department business. According to initial reports, Sales was on I-40 Eastbound when he struck barriers in the middle of the road, lost control of his vehicle, and went down an embankment onto roadways below before coming to a stop. The cause of the wreck is still under investigation, but the local news reported it was the same area where a motorcyclist and the driver of a semi-trailer died in separate wrecks on March 31, 2018.
Incident Location: I-40, Statesville, NC 28677
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