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More than half a dozen motorcycles were involved in a wreck that shut down the eastbound lanes of Highway 64 Saturday afternoon.
The accident blocked Highway 64 between Edgemont Road and Lizard Lick Road for almost two hours.
The Highway Patrol says a group of about 60 motorcycles were heading eastbound when an item fell off a boat being towed. That set off a chain reaction crash.
Troopers say one rider was seriously hurt and rushed to WakeMed.
Authorities in Raleigh are investigating a serious crash that injured a woman early Friday morning.
It happened around 3:30 a.m. on Westgate Road at Lumley Road, near Glenwood Avenue and Interstate 540.
Images from the scene showed a white car that was severely damaged after colliding with a concrete pumping truck not far from the Angus Barn.
It is unclear what caused the accident. A woman driving the car was taken to the hospital after suffering minor injuries.
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.