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A wreck on westbound Interstate 40 near Reedy Creek Road hampered commuter traffic about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries, but emergency personnel said debris from the crash interfered with traffic.
The state Department of Transportation said the shoulder and median were closed.
The driver of a tractor-trailer truck was cited for speeding after he lost control of his rig and spilled a load of lumber on Atlantic Avenue on Tuesday morning.
No injuries were reported, but it took workers most of Tuesday to clear the lumber from the road.
The accident occurred just after 7:30 a.m. on Atlantic Avenue near the intersection of Stillwell Court, according to Raleigh police accident report.
A 23-year-old mother Monday faced a felony charge of negligent child abuse inflicting serious injury because, Raleigh police said in an arrest warrant, she had her 2-year-old son unrestrained in the back seat of a car when it wrecked when she was driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone.
Diamond Diandra Whyte of 1021 River Chase Drive, near Clayton, was arrested after the accident at 9:45 p.m. Sunday.
Police charged that she ran a stop sign at the intersection of North Rogers Lane and Thunderidge Drive while going 70 mph on wet roads and lost control of the car.
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.
Raleigh police say a teenager died early Sunday afternoon after his scooter hit a curb.
Elijah Ijah McLendon, 19, was traveling on a dirt bike then the wreck happened in the 5400 block of Dana Drive around 1:30 p.m.
Witnesses who rushed to help McLendon said he had been riding back and forth at what appeared to a high rate of speed when it appeared he hit something and lost control of the vehicle.
It's unclear whether McLendon was wearing a helmet. Witnesses said they found one not far from where the accident happened.