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A man is facing several charges after leading authorities on a high speed chase through Wake County overnight.
Around midnight Friday, authorities said 23-year-old Nicholas Heggie crashed on Blaney Franks Road, off Ten Ten Road in Raleigh following the chase.
Details surrounding the incident have not been released.
Heggie was later booked into the Wake County Jail on charges of fleeing to elude arrest, aggressive driving, and driving while impaired.
A 16-year-old girl died on her way to church Sunday morning after her car overturned in a stream about a mile from her Selma home, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.
Lanie Margaret Bizzell, was traveling north on N.C. Highway 96 near Dunn Road around 8 a.m. when she went off the road, hit an embankment, flipped and landed upside down submerged in the water, authorities said.
Troopers said Sunday evening that the wreck is still under investigation but that initial findings found that speed was not a factor and that there was no evidence of braking.
Emergency crews responded Friday afternoon to multiple crashes that resulted in about a half-dozen injuries and the closure of one northbound lane of Interstate 95 just northeast of Benson.
Three crashes happened between 3 and 3:30 p.m. near the highway’s interchange with Interstate 40, according to the State Highway Patrol, though it’s unclear if they were connected. The crashes were spread between mile markers 79 and 84, the patrol reported.
A tanker truck and Toyota Camry crashed on a two-lane highway just outside of Carthage around 8:30 a.m. Thursday, seriously injuring the drivers of both vehicles.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol said the Toyota Camry's driver was northbound on U.S. Highway 15/501 near Irene Lane when she sideswiped a dump truck headed south.
The driver, later identified as Chelsea Bosworth, 22, then swerved back into the northbound lane but overcorrected, crossed the center line and hit the 18-wheeler, which flipped over into a ditch.
Authorities say a man is dead and his wife seriously injured after a pedestrian accident in Fayetteville Thursday evening.
It happened around 7:30 p.m. on Cedar Creek Road near Bureau Drive.
Police say the man and woman were struck by an SUV when they were trying to cross the four-lane highway.
Officers believe the couple was staying at one of the hotels along Cedar Creek Road, and had crossed the road earlier. An employee at a convenience store says the man and woman left the store headed back across to a motel.
A 52-year-old man was killed when his SUV left Interstate 40 and crashed down onto Gorman Street on Friday morning.
Police have not released the man’s name or details about the accident, but they said he was the sole occupant of the SUV.
Police shut down traffic on Gorman Street where it passes under I-40 for more than two hours after the accident, which took place about 10:30 a.m.