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Dr Hill was a NATO member. He has an 88TC. He is very invloved in the Motorsports program at UNCC. Here is the write up in the paper.
12:22 p.m. Thursday
William Nathaniel Peeler, 16, of Statesville was eastbound on U.S. 70 at more than 75 mph in a 55-mph zone near Hurley School Road.
His 2000 BMW passed the center line in a curve before slamming head-on into an oncoming gold 2000 Corvette driven by Kimberly Dawn Beam, 43, of Stanly County, said N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper C.F. Rogers.
The impact caused Peeler's car to fly over Beam's car, Rogers said.
Peeler died at the scene. Beam, 43, of New London died on her way to the hospital.
Her husband, Jerre Miller Hill, 61, was in critical condition Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Hill was instrumental in starting UNC Charlotte's motorsports engineering concentration in 1998, said Jim Cuttino, director of the university's Motorsports and Automotive Research Center.
Hill is director of academic programs, dealing with day-to-day curriculum issues and advising undergraduate students.
Beam's sister, Alison Phillips of Charlotte, said Beam met Hill while she was getting her mechanical engineering degree from UNCC.
"She worked as an engineer for several years, then went to work as a flight attendant. ... She spoke fluent French and was learning German," Phillips said. Lately, Beam had been working part time as a desk agent for Lufthansa and taught a physics lab at a community college.
Hill would often grade his students' papers while his wife drove, and on Thursday, the couple was headed to Statesville for a family Thanksgiving dinner.
"She was really kind of quiet and kind of reserved, but had a really dry sense of humor," Phillips said of her sister. "They were big animal lovers and had two dogs and four cats they had adopted
12:22 p.m. Thursday
William Nathaniel Peeler, 16, of Statesville was eastbound on U.S. 70 at more than 75 mph in a 55-mph zone near Hurley School Road.
His 2000 BMW passed the center line in a curve before slamming head-on into an oncoming gold 2000 Corvette driven by Kimberly Dawn Beam, 43, of Stanly County, said N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper C.F. Rogers.
The impact caused Peeler's car to fly over Beam's car, Rogers said.
Peeler died at the scene. Beam, 43, of New London died on her way to the hospital.
Her husband, Jerre Miller Hill, 61, was in critical condition Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Hill was instrumental in starting UNC Charlotte's motorsports engineering concentration in 1998, said Jim Cuttino, director of the university's Motorsports and Automotive Research Center.
Hill is director of academic programs, dealing with day-to-day curriculum issues and advising undergraduate students.
Beam's sister, Alison Phillips of Charlotte, said Beam met Hill while she was getting her mechanical engineering degree from UNCC.
"She worked as an engineer for several years, then went to work as a flight attendant. ... She spoke fluent French and was learning German," Phillips said. Lately, Beam had been working part time as a desk agent for Lufthansa and taught a physics lab at a community college.
Hill would often grade his students' papers while his wife drove, and on Thursday, the couple was headed to Statesville for a family Thanksgiving dinner.
"She was really kind of quiet and kind of reserved, but had a really dry sense of humor," Phillips said of her sister. "They were big animal lovers and had two dogs and four cats they had adopted
Rod Kiser, '88TC, 5 speed, 5 lug, Cobra 13" front brakes, Mark VII 11 1/4" rear disc brakes, PiMP'n, Bullit wheels, ATR 3" exhaust, Aluminum driveshaft, EDIS, 60 LB injectors, gutted upper & ported lower. NATO Member