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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.
RALEIGH — A 20-year-old Cary man died Thursday afternoon when his car, being driven by an 18-year-old woman who police said they suspect was driving impaired, went off Interstate 40, rolled over and slammed into a tree at about 60 mph.
Chase Morgan Rodgers of 101 Butterwood Court was riding in the right, front seat of his 2001 Toyota when it ran off the right side of eastbound I-40 between Trenton and Trinity roads shortly before 5 p.m., a police accident report said.
Police are still trying to determine why a man who was struck and killed by a freight train in downtown Durham on Monday failed to get off the tracks as the train approached.
Jerome Brandon of 407 Pineland Avenue in North Durham was pronounced dead at the scene near the intersection of Pettigrew and Dillard streets, said police spokesman Kammie Michael.
Police say an eastbound Norfolk Southern freight train struck Brandon, 31, while he was walking on the tracks about 4 p.m.
A motorcyclist died Friday morning after running a red light and crashing into a tractor-trailer in Durham, according to the state Highway Patrol.
The motorcyclist's name will not be released until family is notified. The crash happened near Park and Davis drives shortly before 9:30 a.m.
Troopers say the 1994 Honda motorcycle was traveling north on Davis Drive when the rider ran a red light and crashed into the right side of a 2006 Sterling tractor-trailer that was turning left onto the Interstate 40 eastbound ramp.
Clayton police say a 13-year-old boy riding a bicycle was hit by a car Wednesday night.
It happened about 9 p.m. on Barber Mill Road.
Video from the scene showed damage to the car's front bumper.
Police said the boy was riding with two other kids on bikes.
The driver told police she saw two of the kids on the right hand side of the road so she moved out of the way to give them room, but she didn't see the boy on the left-hand side of the road, and clipped him.
The boy was taken to the Johnston Health of Clayton with what appeared to be minor injuries.
A motorcyclist was taken to Wake Med with serious injuries after an accident Sunday afternoon on Weston Parkway.
A car traveling southbound ran a red light and struck the motorcycle as it turned left turn onto Harrison Avenue.
All of inbound Harrison Avenue, and one outbound lane, remain closed as of 5:15 p.m.
A woman was killed in a three-vehicle collision on Interstate 40 on Sunday night, according to Raleigh police.
Cassandra Jean Martin, 23, was a passenger in a car that ran into a disabled car in the roadway, police said in a written statement.
The incident began when a tractor-trailer truck driven by William Jerome Clyburn, 60, attempted to get onto eastbound I-40 from Hammond Road, according to police. The truck collided with a car driven by Terry Lane Thompson, 56, leaving the car disabled in the second lane from the median, according to police.