JOHNSTON COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- One person is dead after a tractor-trailer hit a pedestrian on Interstate 40 in Johnston County on Monday.
The crash happened around 10 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of the highway near mile marker 323.
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According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, a 2017 Freightliner tractor-trailer was heading east when a pedestrian, who was standing on the shoulder of the road, stepped into the path of the truck.
The pedestrian died at the scene.
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The Johnston County Sheriff's Office is handling further investigation of the incident.