87-year-old dies days after crash that killed 84-year-old wife, NC cops say
UPDATE: Asheville police said the 87-year-old driver died two days after the crash. He was identified as Robert Gantt.
Officers in a news release also shared an updated age for Gantt’s wife, who was killed in the crash. She was 84.
The original story is below.
A 90-year-old woman died after a car veered into traffic that was going in the opposite direction, North Carolina officials said.
The crash also left the woman’s 87-year-old husband with serious injuries on Friday, Sept. 30, according to the Asheville Police Department.
Officers in the mountain town said the husband was behind the wheel of a car traveling west on Patton Avenue. Then, “for unknown reasons,” the car “crossed into oncoming eastbound traffic and collided with a 2010 Ford van,” police wrote in a Facebook post.
The husband was seriously hurt but remained in stable condition as of Sept. 30, officials said.
The man’s wife, a passenger in the car, died at the scene. She was identified as 90-year-old Julia Gantt.
No one in the van was injured, according to police.
Officials continue to investigate the crash, which was reported at about 1:15 p.m. near Patton Avenue and New Leicester Highway.
This story was originally published October 3, 2022 at 8:35 AM.
