HIGH POINT, N.C. — A High Point man has been charged with multiple crimes related to a crash on November 8 that killed a woman from Tennessee on I-74.
According to the High Point Police Department, officers responded to I-74 E at Eastchester Drive just before noon on Nov. 8 when they found 67-year-old Janet Edkins dead at the scene after the driver of a Toyota van crashed into her while she was either "stopped or driving slowly" in the middle lane of I-74.
A passenger in Edkins' car was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Forty-three-year-old Om Naing Tam of High Point has been charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and unlawful use of a mobile phone.
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