Dr Roger Lim, ER Doctor at UNC Caldwell Killed by Drunk Driver in Lenoir Crash

Dr Roger Lim, an emergency room doctor at Caldwell Memorial Hospital has been killed in a terrible accident by a drunk driver identified as Randy Collins.

Dr Lim was driving home from a shift at UNC Caldwell on Saturday, November 16th, when he was struck at a high rate of speed by the drunk driver at Norwood and Hibriten in Lenoir.

His car reportedly rolled over multiple times from the collision and was heavily damaged. Lim was pronounced dead on the scene. Collins survived with non-life threatening injuries and has been arrested and booked into jail on 2nd degree murder, speeding to elude DWI and several other charges.

Dr Lim’s death has stunned his immediate family, friends and co-workers, all of whom sang his praises for being a great dad, doctor and a person in general.

Lim’s wife April was devastated at the news and paid tribute to her husband in an emotional social media post.

April revealed she spoke with her husband just after leaving the hospital when he called her. She revealed they spoke for two minutes and then she promised to call back once she’d paid for the takeout food she was out getting.

“You never picked up again,” April Lim sadly wrote. “I called back numerous times over the next 40 minutes. I ran several scenarios through my head of why you might not be answering….nothing prepared me for driving up on a fatal collision that wasn’t your fault.”

She added: “Roger, I don’t know how to navigate this without you. Gabriel, Ian and I are broken beyond anything we’ve ever experienced. Tonight, our world collapsed around us,”

Roger B. Lim graduated the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical school in 2000, completing his residency at Albany Medical Center Hospital from 2000-2003. He was board certified in Emergency medicine and was described by colleagues and patients alike as one of the best ER doctors at UNC Health Caldwell.

“Dr. Lim was as good as they come. I’ve been a nurse for a long time now and clinicians can get burn-out and become jaded with time, but not him,” nurse Amber Whittington Racette said in a touching tribute. “He talked to each patient like you’d been his friend for years. He treated every patient with compassion and respect, and didn’t judge because of their lifestyle or life-choices.”

Another nurse, Tyranda Shyanne Cloer, said Lim was “Someone who would exhaust every single option to save someone, constantly worried about them and gave each patient his all every. single. shift. The one who hated being bored and would pace holes into the floor waiting on patients to care for, the one who would be in the room waiting on you and the patient to arrive. He loved his job and he was phenomenal at it,”