Multiple fatalities in two I-77 wrecks

A traffic accident on I-77 northbound near mile marker 73 just after 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Yadkin EMS Director Keith Vestal confirmed that two children were killed in a wreck on I-77 near mile marker 73 on Wednesday. The wreck involved a vehicle and a tractor trailer roll over.

A third person died in a single-vehicle accident involving a tractor trailer in nearly the same location, south of 421, on Wednesday night.

Emergency personnel are on the scene of another accident on I-77 at the 79 mile marker around 1 p.m. as well as an accident near Dobbins Mill Road on U.S. 601 north of Boonville. Vestal said there were two entrapments reported at the Dobbins Mill Road accident and those individuals had been freed from the vehicle.

Additional details will be reported as they become available.