MEBANE, N.C. (AP) -- Two sisters from South Carolina have died after another driver hit their mother's stalled car on an interstate in North Carolina.
The N.C. Highway Patrol told multiple media outlets that 9-year-old Mequea Spears and 5-year-old Aiysha Spears of Bennettsville, S.C., were killed Tuesday when a Ford Explorer rear-ended their mother's Honda Civic.
Authorities say the Civic was stalled on westbound Interstate 85 near Mebane.
The girls' mother, 31-year-old Andrea L. Purvis, and an 8-year-old child in her car were taken to hospitals for treatment.
The driver of the Explorer, 52-year-old John Dieter of Durham, N.C., was treated at the scene. Troopers say they do not plan to charge him.
All three children were in child or booster seats.
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