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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.
A marked Raleigh police vehicle was involved in a head-on crash with a pickup truck Monday morning at Poole and St. George roads, and crash investigators closed Poole Road.
The police officer was taken to WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, but was not believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries, a police spokesman said.
The condition of the pickup truck driver was not immediately known.
The police department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit went to the scene to establish what had happened in the 10:07 a.m. accident.
Two people died early Sunday after their car crashed during a police chase that started in Mebane and ended in Orange County.
Mebane police said an officer tried stopping the 2005 Nissan Altima on suspicion of impaired driving shortly before 1:30 a.m. near the intersection of U.S. Highway 70 and Buckhorn Road.
The driver, however, did not pull over and led police on a pursuit that lasted several miles.
A 21-year-old Kure Beach man was charged early Friday in connection with a hit-and-run wreck on Interstate 40 West near U.S. Highway 70 that killed two people.
Marshall Hudson Doran is charged with two counts each of second-degree murder and hit-and-run causing serious injury or death. He is also charged with resisting arrest and felony possession of a controlled substance.
According to investigators, a tractor-trailer cab being driven by Cardell Gayfield lost control and ended up perpendicular in westbound travel lanes of I-40 at about 8:30 p.m.
The N.C. Highway Patrol says a traffic accident which killed a Carthage woman may be related to the weather.
According to the patrol, 23-year-old Breanna Lynn Tile was killed Tuesday when the car she was riding in went off a snow-covered road outside Aberdeen and struck a tree.
The driver of the car was taken to Moore Regional Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The patrol said charges are pending in the case.
A driver died Monday afternoon in a head-on collision in Carthage, police said.
A Lincoln Continental and a pickup truck collided on N.C. Highway 24/27 near Myrick Road around noon. The driver of the car was killed in the crash. The driver of the pickup was taken to an area hospital.
Police were investigating the cause.