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Fayetteville police say a Fort Bragg soldier is dead after he was struck by a vehicle as he tried to cross a local street.
A statement from the Army post said 23-year-old Spec. Fernando Rodriguez of Brownsville, Texas, was attempting to cross Morganton Road when he was hit.
So far, no charges have been filed in Sunday's accident.
Rodriguez was a military police officer assigned to the 65th Military Police Company, 503rd Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade. He arrived at Fort Bragg in January 2010.
A 53-year-old woman was killed when a pickup truck struck her on Tuesday night.
Denise Michelle Holliday, 53, was crossing South Saunders Street near its intersection with Carolina Pines Avenue just after 9 p.m., according to the Raleigh Police Department.
At the time of the collision, Holliday was not within a crosswalk and oncoming traffic had a green light, according to a preliminary police investigation. The vehicle was traveling at about 39 mph when it hit her, according to police.
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.
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.