North Carolina Car Wash Employee Dies After Getting ‘Tangled’ in Machinery

A 26-year-old woman is dead after becoming snared in the machinery of a drive-through car wash in western North Carolina, authorities said.

Carolina Bree Franks was found trapped in the Zips Car Wash by first responders summoned to the scene on a report of a traumatic injury around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to a news release from the Weaverville Police Department. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

“She was working at the car wash, cleaning, and she got tangled up in a piece of equipment,” her grandmother, Ernestine Franks, told local station WLOS. “And when they found her she was already dead.”

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