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A woman was killed and a man injured Thursday morning when an Amtrak passenger train hit a car at a rail crossing in Cary, officials said.
The collision occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. at a Maynard Road crossing near Old Apex Road.
The Cary Police Department said it appears that Benny Derrick Dimery tried to drive around the lowered crossing arm, and his car was on the track when the northbound Amtrak Silver Star train hit it at about 50 mph.
Dimery, 24, of Laurinburg, was taken to WakeMed for treatment, but his condition was unknown.
A Union Pines High School student died Thursday night in a one-car crash in Moore County, authorities said.
Kayla Lineberry, 16, of Cameron, was heading home from her boyfriend's house at about 8:45 p.m. when her car ran off the right side of Summer Hill Church Road, west of Carthage, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. She tried to get back onto the road but lost control of the car and ran off the side of the road again and into a tree.
Lineberry was pronounced dead at the scene.