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Two injured in three car crash on Interstate 40 East near Poole Road in Raleigh, NC

Date: 
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC

Two people were hurt in a three car accident on Interstate 40 East near Poole Road in Raleigh, NC.  The injured were transported to a local hospital.

Two injured in car accident on highway 24 in Clinton, NC

Date: 
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC

Two injured in car accident on highway 24 in Clinton, NC.  One driver was transported to a local hospital and the other was flown to UNC Hospitals by helicopter.

 

 

Wesley Berger, 57, Jose Trujillo, and Richard Johnson, 44, seriously injured after a head-on car crash between North Hyde Park Avenue and Calvin Street in Durham, North Carolina

Date: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC

Three people were taken to a local hospital after a head-on collision in Durham Wednesday afternoon around 3:15 p.m. A van headed west on Holloway Street crossed the center line and struck an SUV between North Hyde Park Avenue and Calvin Street. The impact then pushed the SUV into a third vehicle. The drivers of the van and the SUV as well as a passenger in the van were receiving treatment for serious injuries.

Antony Smith, 12, dies after his mother, Laura Lynne Smith, 49, flips their SUV with blood alcohol allegedly 4 times legal limit in Raleigh, North Carolina

Date: 
Monday, October 13, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Laura Lynne Smith, of Raleigh, was diving 74 in a 45 mph zone south on Creedmoor Road when she lost control of her SUV struck a speed limit sign, rolled over, and hit four trees. Her son, Antony Smith, was pronounced dead at the scene. Smith's blood-alcohol content was allegedly .32, which is four times more than North Carolina's legal limit. 

Robert Sherrill McGee, 81, and Melba McGee, 79, killed in three-vehicle accident on North Carolina Highway 210 near Smithfield

Date: 
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
"We do not know who or what caused the truck to go left of center," said Lt. Jeff Gordon with the state Highway Patrol. "Just one split second of in-attention and drifting left of center, as you can see, results in a tragic consequence."

Laura Yost, 15, and Ryan Yost, 16, critically injured in truck-SUV collision in Cary, NC

Date: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Both siblings were transported to Duke University Hopsital, but Laura Yost had to have surgery for her injuries and was put into a medically induced coma. A statement was released Tuesday, September 23 indicating that she has passed away.

Firefighter John Derek Gupton, 24, killed and Kyle Horton injured in fire truck crash on Sykes Road in Louisburg

Date: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC

A firefighter was killed and another was injured Tuesday afternoon after the fire truck they were in overturned in Franklin County. The driver died, and the passenger was being treated at a local hospital. 

John Michael Williams, 59, killed and Jimmy Allen, 25, Walter Allen, 30, and Michael Carter, 28, injured after a two-car, wrong-way crash on N.C. 147 in Durham, North Carolina

Date: 
Monday, March 24, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
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.

One adult injured, after a car crashes into a school bus at an intersection near Durham, North Carolina

Date: 
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
A Durham County public school bus was involved in an accident late Monday morning. The accident happened along NC Highway 98 at Breedlove Avenue in east Durham just before noon, right as schools were releasing early due to inclement weather. According to Chip Sudderth with Durham Public Schools, eight high school students from City of Medicine Academy were on board Bus 418 when a black car collided into the side of the bus. Images from the scene showed the car with heavy damage, but it was unclear what caused the accident.

Kenneth Austin Alexander, 16, arrested after his car sideswiped a school bus in Wake County, slightly injuring the driver and two students on the bus in Raleigh, North Carolina

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
A 16-year-old Middle Creek High School student is due in Wake County court Tuesday on a charge that he fled after a car he was driving sideswiped a school bus shortly after classes let out for the day Thursday. Cary police arrested Kenneth Austin Alexander at his home at 5632 Monarch Birch Drive, an Apex address in unincorporated Wake County, shortly before 5 p.m., arrest records show. Alexander was charged with failing to stop after an accident, careless and reckless driving and having more than one person under 21 in the car with him while he has a provisional driver’s license.