Retired assistant fire chief dies in head-on collision in Pender County
Many remember retired firefighter who died in car wreck By WECT Staff and Kendall McGee | April 7, 2021 at 10:20 AM EDT - Updated April 7 at 7:00 PM
ROCKY POINT, N.C. (WECT) - Mike Garner, former assistant fire chief at Seagate who retired from the Wrightsville Beach Fire Department, died in a head-on collision on Highway 210 near Rocky Point on Tuesday.
According to State Highway Patrol, 67-year-old Michael Lee Garner of New Hanover County was traveling west on NC 210 in a pick-up truck around noon when his vehicle crossed the center line and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer that was headed east.