FRANKLIN, N.C. -- An unlicensed teenage driver and his mother have died after a crash in the North Carolina mountains that injured three other people.
The Highway Patrol tells local media that the accident happened east of Franklin about 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The Patrol says 16-year-old Caleb Sloope of Franklin was driving a van that collided with a sports utility vehicle.
Sloope and his mother, 44-year-old mother Joy Sloope, were killed. Sloope's sister was hospitalized. The two people in the SUV were also hospitalized.
Authorities say Sloope ran off the side of U.S. 64 and overcorrected getting back on the highway. The van then rolled on its side and was struck by the second vehicle.
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