A beloved North Carolina man and his 5-year-old son were killed at the scene when a golf cart ride ended with a deadly crash earlier this week.
Michael Marlow, 39, and his son were riding a golf cart with three other children and an adult when 23-year-old Austin Ray Harmon lost control of his Honda Accord and swerved into the wrong way, crashing into the cart.
“Golf carts are a fun recreational activity for folks to get out and go for a ride, but when that mixes with a collision with a vehicle the end is often tragic,” State Trooper Jeffrey Swagger said.
Harmon was arrested for DUI and charged with driving while impaired, two counts of death by vehicle, and three counts of serious injury by vehicle.
“You can feel the heaviness in the community around pretty much everybody,” a family friend said at a vigil for the two victims.
“It’s just an overwhelming heaviness of sorrow for them and their family.”
