The highway has been shut down since Hurricane Helene's floodwaters swept away extensive sections along the Pigeon River.

A driver is dead after ignoring warning signs, blowing past barricades and tumbling down an embankment on a highway damaged ...

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A driver died Saturday after authorities said she drove around the barricades on a closed section of Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee line.

A driver died over the weekend after she bypassed a barricade enacted after Hurricane Helene damaged a North Carolina highway ...

The driver who crashed to her death on a closed section of Interstate 40 was followed for miles by a state trooper trying to ...

Photos of Interstate 40 with multiple lanes washed out by Helene near the Tennessee state line garnered widespread attention in the days after the storm as the region was largely cut off by numerous ...

Officials say a driver has died after going around a barricade on a hurricane-damaged North Carolina highway that became a ...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced plans to partially reopen Interstate 40 on Jan. 1 after the ...

That portion of eastbound I-40 near the Pigeon River Gorge was washed out by storm floods when Hurricane Helene hit the area, ...

Tropical Storm Helene washed out multiple sections of Interstate 40, but that didn’t stop one motorist from bypassing a road ...