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Monday, April 14, 2014
The North Carolina Department of Transportation said Tuesday that one of its excavator trucks was in an accident in Edgecombe County that left a police officer dead. It happened around 9 a.m. on N.C. 111, shortly after the truck left a NCDOT maintenance yard on McKendree Church Rd just outside Tarboro. Tarboro Police Chief Damon Williams identified the dead man as Officer Charles Johnson. The driver of the truck was not hurt.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
A Wake County school bus was involved in an accident at Louisburg Road and Fox Road just south of I-540 in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon. Pictures from the scene appeared to show a Dodge pickup truck rear-ended the bus. In all, six people were injured -- five students and the bus driver. Four were taken to WakeMed North and two to WakeMed pediatrics. All injuries appeared to be minor. School officials said there were about 24 students from Wake Early College of Health and Sciences High School on board.
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

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.

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

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.

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Friday, April 4, 2014

A 16 year old from Clinton was killed early Saturday morning on Highway 70 east of Goldsboro.

Troopers say James Edward Johnson was walking near Lake Wackena Road when he was struck by a vehicle driven by Larry Dale Evans, of Dunn. It happened in the westbound lane of Highway 70.

Johnson received fatal injuries.

No citations were issued.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The North Carolina Highway Patrol says eight students were on a bus headed to Nashville Elementary School when it overturned around 7:30 Wednesday morning. It happened on Boddie Mill Pond Road a mile west of NC-58 in Nash County. Troopers said the bus driver reported he had problems with the vehicle's steering system and he could not keep it under control. The bus went down an embankment and overturned in a ravine.
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Authorities say a man is dead after he lost control of his vehicle on a wet road early Saturday morning.

Troopers say 26-year-old Addison James Kaylid was traveling northbound on Aviation Parkway around 4:20 a.m. when he took the ramp to Interstate 540 east and lost control.

Officials say he was traveling at a high rate speed when he drove off the road, struck a tree, and his Ford SUV erupted into flames.

Kaylid died at the scene. Troopers say he was the only person in the vehicle and no other cars were involved.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

A man was critically hurt in a wreck on East End Avenue early Friday, and police spent several hours trying to determine whether a second person was involved.

The Acura that was involved had been going east on East End Avenue at high speed when it crossed the center line and went off the north side of the road, crashed into trees, broke apart and burned, police said.

Police said they were called shortly after 3 a.m. to the crash site At East End and Rowena avenues.

Emergency personnel found the driver nearby.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

A double fatal accident shut down all southbound lanes of Interstate 95 for several hours early Wednesday morning.

The crash happened around 3 a.m. near exit 95 and U.S. Highway 70 Business in Smithfield, not far from the Carolina Premium Outlets.

Witnesses say a Chevrolet Avalanche pickup truck was travelling in the northbound lanes when it crossed the median, turned upside down, and struck a Dodge minivan -- shearing the top off the van.

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Monday, March 24, 2014
Police do not know why a Durham man drove his Toyota south in the northbound lanes of the Durham Freeway and hit an oncoming vehicle, killing himself and injuring three other men. John Michael Williams, 59, was driving around 9 p.m. Tuesday in the wrong direction on N.C. 147, also known as the Durham Freeway, when he collided head-on with a northbound Jeep driven by Jimmy Allen, 25, of Hillsborough. Williams was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police spokeswoman Kammie Michael.