Two Blowing Rock volunteer firefighters killed in a crash that eventually claimed another life were drag racing with junior firefighters from another department with speeds up to 95 mph shortly before the crash, according to a preliminary N.C. Highway Patrol reconstruction report.

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The wreck happened on U.S. 221 in Marion at about 3 p.m. on March 21, a Sunday, as people were leaving the McDowell Fire & Rescue College. A 2008 Ford Mustang driven by Jeremy Gordon Bolick, 23, of Lenoir went out of control and started spinning across the five-lane highway where it collided with an oncoming vehicle, said a Highway Patrol report. The speed at impact was about 70 mph, according to a collision report by Trooper T.D. Brewer. Bolick and his passenger, Charles Thomas Wright, 20, of Blowing Rock died in the crash. Both were volunteers with Blowing Rock Fire & Rescue and had been at the college to seek firefighter certification that would have allowed them to fully participate in fighting fires.

Source: Team Firefighter - Fatal accident was caused by drag racing

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