CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- One person died after a multi-car accident in the SouthPark area Thursday afternoon.
The accident happened at 2:33 p.m. at the intersection of Simsbury Road and Fairview Road just west of Charlotte Country Day School.
Officials say 75-year-old Wolfgang Kretzschmar died in the wreck.
According to police, Kretzschmar's 2008 Acura plowed into the driver of a BMW who was stopped at a stop sign on Simsbury Road waiting to make a right turn onto Fairview Road. After hitting the BMW, Kretzschmar's car plowed across Fairview and hit a tree, killing him at the scene.
The female driver of the BMW was treated at the scene by paramedics but did not need to go to the hospital.
