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Panera Bread Employee Killed In Tractor Trailer Crash

Leon Baker died after his tractor trailer crashed on I-40 west and dropped onto E. Clemmonsville Road in Winston-Salem.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Editor's Note: The attached video is from a second tractor-trailer accident that happened in Winston-Salem. 

North Carolina Highway Patrol says a 65-year-old man is dead after flipping over an interstate bridge in a tractor trailer Sunday morning. 

Leon Baker, of Sophia, was driving on I-40 West when he drove off the right side of the road, hit a guardrail and an embankment then overturned onto E. Clemmonsville Road. 

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The 900 block of Clemmonsville Road, directly under the I-40 bridge between N. Frontage Road and S. Frontage Road, was completely shut down to traffic for hours. No other vehicles were involved in this crash.

Baker worked at Panera Bread in Greensboro.

The company provided this statement:

“We are shocked and saddened by the passing of a wonderful member of the Panera family. Our hearts go out to his family during this difficult time.” 

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