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Raleigh police say a teenager died early Sunday afternoon after his scooter hit a curb.
Elijah Ijah McLendon, 19, was traveling on a dirt bike then the wreck happened in the 5400 block of Dana Drive around 1:30 p.m.
Witnesses who rushed to help McLendon said he had been riding back and forth at what appeared to a high rate of speed when it appeared he hit something and lost control of the vehicle.
It's unclear whether McLendon was wearing a helmet. Witnesses said they found one not far from where the accident happened.
Police have released the name of a man who was struck and killed by a train east of downtown Durham on Monday afternoon.
Joseph Mewborn, 20, of Durham was struck at 12:20 p.m. near Pettigrew and Plum streets, said a Durham police spokeswoman.
A crash on westbound Interstate 540 in Raleigh Monday morning sent two drivers to a local hospital and backed up traffic for more than 10 miles during the morning commute.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said the crash happened about 6:30 a.m. near the Leesville Road exit when the driver of a pickup truck hit a Dodge Challenger, causing it to sideswipe a tractor-trailer.
A Toyota Prius then hit the rear of the tractor-trailer, which had stopped in a lane of travel and had its hazard lights on.
The Air Force said Thursday that the serviceman killed in an accident on U.S. 1 in Cary was a sergeant assigned to Pope Army Air Field at Fort Bragg.
Tech. Sgt. Eduardo R. Rivas, 33, died Wednesday morning when a car hit him while he was checking damage to his own car after skidding on the road about 5:40 a.m. on the northbound side of the road near the U.S. 64 interchange.
Rivas was assigned to the 682nd Air Support Operations Squadron, 18th Air Support Operations Group, Air Combat Command, a spokesman said.
He lived in Moore County.