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Three people died that morning, June 9, and dozens more were injured; but Evans, 39, a plant supervisor and father of twins, made it out alive.
Three weeks to the day after the explosion, Evans was killed in a motorcycle accident.
Several of his co-workers gathered at his home at 1005 Buckhorn Road in Garner on Wednesday to comfort and support his wife, children and grandchildren.
"We just couldn't believe it," said Earlene Scott, 39, who worked with Evans in the packaging department of the plant. "Three weeks to the day."
On the day of the explosion, Scott lost her cell phone running from the blast. Evans let her use his cell phone so the distraught woman could call home and let her loved ones know she was OK.
"This is too shocking," she said of Evans' death.
Scott said ConAgra officials had been calling some of their employees back to work to help clean up the devastation the explosion left. Plant officials told her they had tried to contact Evans on Tuesday, hours before he died.
"But they couldn't get through to him," she said.
His fatal crash occurred about 5:14 p.m. Tuesday at N.C. 42 in Garner, near the Rock Service Station Road, Highway Patrol Sgt. Cameron Taylor reported Wednesday.
Taylor said three vehicles were involved in the crash.
A cement truck owned by S.T. Wooten in Wilson was traveling south on Rock Service Station Road. Evans was traveling north on a 1995 Honda motorcycle. Taylor said a Kia minivan traveling west on N.C. 42 failed to stop for a stop sign and crashed into Evans, throwing him off his motorcycle.
The minivan continued through the intersection, dragging the motorcycle beneath it, before the minivan crashed head-on into the cement truck, the Highway Patrol reported.
Evans came to rest in the road and was pronounced dead at the scene, the patrol reported.
The driver of the Kia, Catherine Girouard, 58, of Willow Spring, had minor injuries, Taylor said. The driver of the cement truck, Randy Campbell, 42, of Fuquay-Varina, was not injured.
Girouard is charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle, Taylor said.
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