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Police are investigating a car crash that killed a 25-year-old man in the 700 block of Sunnybrook Road on Sunday.
A 2011 Toyota sedan left the road at the scene and collided with a tree, police said.
Nigel Juan Cruz Jr. of Raleigh was the car’s only occupant when police arrived about 9:15 a.m., they said
Sunnybrook Road was closed Sunday morning while investigators tried to determine how the crash happened and why.
Police charged a 20-year-old man with driving while impaired in the wake of an accident Saturday night that killed a pedestrian.
Officers also charged Darrius Cortez Gilbert of 600 Pyracantha Drive in Holly Springs with driving after consuming alcohol while under 21 years old.
Jesse Lemar Lawrence, 33, of Holly Springs was struck at N.C. Highway 55 and New Hill Road about 11 p.m. Saturday, police said.
He died early Sunday of his injuries after doctors tried to save him at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh.
DURHAM, N.C. — A driver was killed and his passenger hurt in a single-vehicle crash early Monday in Durham, police said.
The crash happened about 3:45 a.m. at the U.S. 15-501 bypass and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway extension.
Police said Franco Juan Sanchez, 33, of Durham, was driving a 2002 Subaru Legacy north on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard when he tried to exit onto Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. But Sanchez veered left off the road, went airborne, hit a concrete wall and landed on the bypass.
He died at the scene.