LAKE AREA FIRE CHIEF BADLY HURT IN FATAL WRECK

Rocky Mount Fire Protection District Chief Larry Paynter suffers severe injuries in a deadly head on collision Route Y in Morgan County. Donna Grammer of Rocky Mount was trying to pass another vehicle in a no-passing zone when she struck Paynter’s S-U-V head on…and the side swiped the vehicle she was trying to pass. Grammer was pronounced dead at the scene. Paynter was taken to lake Regional Hospital with serious injuries…while the driver of the third vehicle was not injured.