Officials say a driver has died after going around a barricade on a hurricane-damaged North Carolina highway that became a symbol of Helene’s destruction.

A pickup driver died Tuesday morning after crashing into a tractor-trailer that was parked on Interstate 95 in Harford County, causing a fire that shut down the highway for hours, according to Maryland State Police.

An evening drive turned disastrous over the weekend after a woman drove her SUV around barriers and plunged down an embankment along a hurricane-damaged stretch of Interstate 40 in North Carolina. The Junaluska Fire Department said the crash happened at around 8 p.