It’s in God’s hands’: Grand Strand man speaks after cousins involved in fatal NC wreck
A man whose cousins were involved in a fatal wreck on Thursday spoke with WMBF News on Saturday.
“Right now, it’s in God’s hands. You know, we’re just praying for god’s grace and a supernatural healing,” Dr. Timothy Carter said.
It’s a prayer that he and his family are holding onto as their loved one fights for his life in a North Carolina hospital.
Four people were killed and more injured on Thursday when police said a dump truck ran a stop sign and crashed into workers on the street and a power company utility truck.
Two of those victims are cousins of Carter who lives in the Grand Strand.
“Very polite, very respectable and both love Jesus,” he said.
It all happened in the town of Eden in Rockingham County, North Carolina, which is where Carter said his family is from.
His 32-year-old cousin, Madison or Matt, as his family and friends called him, lost his life on the scene.
Carter said Matt’s dad has taken the loss hard.
“Matt’s daddy, Charlie, is kind of shut down right now. That was his baby. From what I understand, he laid on the scene with Matt the whole time. He wasn’t going to get up while his child lay there,” he explained.
Another cousin of Timothy’s is Hunter Carter, who was in critical condition Saturday night with a long road ahead.
Timothy says Hunter’s situation is eerily similar to Hunter’s dad John.
“We lost John when Hunter was just three months old, and now we’ve got Hunter fighting for his life with a three-month-old child,” he said.
So now the Carter family said they will wait and trust that God is in control.
Timothy says neither Hunter nor Matt ever ended a conversation without saying ‘I love you.’
He said that’s one of the things he’ll miss most about Matt.
“That’s what really hurts. Just knowing I ain’t gonna hear him say ‘I love you’ again,” Carter said.
Matt leaves behind a wife and two young kids.
His wife posted a poem to social media following her husband’s death and Timothy said the last line is particularly meaningful.
“I’ll be the first face you see when you get here,” he read.
A promise he said his family rests in, believing they’ll see Matt again.
Timothy said he hopes everyone remembers this:
“The one thing I’d say is tell your loved ones that’re alive you love them before it’s too late. You never know when god’s going to punch their ticket to come home,” he said.
The man accused of running the stop sign faces a stop sign violation and misdemeanor death by motor vehicle.
