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Sunday, January 12, 2014

A teen driver is being charged in connection to a Monday accident that left a 14-year-old girl dead, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.

The incident happened just after 2:30 p.m. on the 4500 block of Camp Stewart Road in east Charlotte.

Police say that 18-year-old Dayron Warren was driving a 1994 Honda Passport when he went into a curve and lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle then slid sideways and flipped several times.

Warren, as well as a 14-year-old girl who officials say was in the front passenger seat, were both ejected from the SUV.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Police in Charlotte say a man has been charged after a woman riding in his vehicle was killed in a crash with a tractor trailer early Monday morning.

According to police, Adoma Connor's 1988 Lincoln Town Car was involved in a wreck along the 3900 block of N. Graham Street on Monday morning.

Connor told police that his car " shuttered" and he applied the brakes. That's when he says the car suddenly turned to the left and stopped across both southbound lanes of North Graham.

Connor told officers that he was unable to move the car due to a bad shift linkage.

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Monday, December 30, 2013
Firefighters in Charlotte have cleared a vehicle crash that all but closed access to Interstate 77 southbound from Interstate 85 southbound Tuesday morning. The incident was reported at 6:59 a.m. at milemarker 38. That's the ramp from I-85 to I-77 southbound. The left lane of the ramp is closed. The accident was cleared from the roadway by 8 a.m., according to NCDOT. Medic transported one patient with potentially life threatening injuries.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Three people were injured Friday morning when a car slammed into a power pole on Beatties Ford Road in northwest Charlotte, authorities say. The wreck forced police to close portions of the road for a while. The wreck was reported shortly before 10 a.m. in the 1900 block of Beatties Ford Road. That is south of LaSalle Street and about three blocks north of Northwest School of the Arts. The power pole was damaged and lines knocked down. A spokeswoman for Medic said the three injured people were taken to Carolinas Medical Center with potentially life-threatening injuries.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on Friday charged a 50-year-old man with felony hit-and-run in the death of a pedestrian who was halfway across Eastway Drive Thursday evening when she was struck by a 2003 GMC, C5500, pickup truck.

Lola Jean Williams, 54, was killed about 6:20 p.m. near Eastway Crossing Drive, police said. The white pickup then headed north toward Central Avenue, police said.