Thursday morning, firefighters from Rosewood and Wayne County EMS were dispatched to the scene of a single vehicle accident on Perkins Mills Road near Rosewood Road. The 2015 white Chevrolet passenger car driven by Austin Huffman of Princeton was traveling south on Perkins Mills Road towards Rosewood Road when it apparently ran off the left side of the road, struck a driveway culvert, went airborne, and came to a stop in a ditch. The driver and passenger were taken to the hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries. The accident is under an investigation by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. According to the officers on the scene, the driver will be charged with a seatbelt violation, failure to maintain lane control and other possible charges. The passenger is also facing charges in the crash.
