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A Bladenboro man died early Saturday morning after the vehicle he was driving hit a guardrail, struck a concrete barrier, then landed on an embarkment on U.S. 701 at Turnbull Creek Bridge.
Joseph Evander Russ, 28, of Oak Grove Church Road was pronounced dead at the scene, said Bladen County Coroner Hubert Kinlaw.
The investigation determined that Russ was traveling toward Elizabethtown on U.S. 701 South in a 2003 Jeep Cherokee shortly before 1 a.m. when the vehicle swerved to the right and hit a guardrail, then ricochetted to the left, crashing into a concrete barrier on the bridge and going over the barrier before landing on an embankment. Investigators aren’t sure what caused the accident, but it didn’t appear that Russ was speeding at the time.
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