A local man was killed in a single-vehicle accident Monday night on Rink Dam Road near Sam Poole Lane in Alexander County. According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, a pickup truck was traveling east on Rink Dam Road, drove off the right side of the road, went down an embankment and overturned. The driver of the truck, 43-year-old Michael Franklin Rockette of Taylorsville, was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene.
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