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Thursday, April 24, 2014Area:
Wilmington, NCThe N.C. Highway Patrol says three people are dead after a multi-car accident south of Whiteville.
Troopers say a driver couldn't complete a pass in a no-passing zone on U.S. 701 Friday night and tried to get back into the lane. That car hit the fender of the vehicle in front of it, causing 78-year-old Furley James Brown to lose control of his car and crash into a third car head-on.
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Monday, April 7, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA Wake County school bus was involved in an accident at Louisburg Road and Fox Road just south of I-540 in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon.
Pictures from the scene appeared to show a Dodge pickup truck rear-ended the bus.
In all, six people were injured -- five students and the bus driver. Four were taken to WakeMed North and two to WakeMed pediatrics. All injuries appeared to be minor.
School officials said there were about 24 students from Wake Early College of Health and Sciences High School on board.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCEleven people are being treated for injuries after a school bus from Rowan County was involved in a crash in south Charlotte on Friday.
According to MEDIC, the bus crashed along the 5700 block of Providence Road around 11 a.m. This is near Shalom Park.
Eleven people are being treated for injuries. Most of the injuries are considered to be minor.
The students were from Rowan County and were on a field trip to the Jewish Community Center (JCC) when the crash occurred.
The bus driver backed up the school bus and hit a wall. No one was seriously injured in the crash.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCThe North Carolina Highway Patrol says eight students were on a bus headed to Nashville Elementary School when it overturned around 7:30 Wednesday morning.
It happened on Boddie Mill Pond Road a mile west of NC-58 in Nash County.
Troopers said the bus driver reported he had problems with the vehicle's steering system and he could not keep it under control.
The bus went down an embankment and overturned in a ravine.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014A girl in a stroller was critically injured after being hit by a car in the parking lot of a hospital early Wednesday morning. Her mother was also injured, and the driver was charged with DWI.
Melissa Flynn and her daughter Aubrey were injured around 2:45 a.m. at the Alamance Regional Medical Center emergency room off Huffman Mill Road. Both were rushed to the nearby emergency room, which was their intended destination before the collision, Burlington police said.