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James Lamont Johnson Jr., 60, killed, after his pickup leaves the University Parkway roadway in Winston-Salem, and crashes into a tree.

Date: 
Monday, April 14, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

A man died of his injuries following a single-vehicle crash in Winston-Salem Tuesday morning.

James Lamont Johnson Jr., 60, of Winston-Salem, died at the scene of the crash around 10:15 a.m. in the 3200 block of University Parkway near Reynolds Boulevard.

Johnson was driving a Ford Ranger south on University Parkway when he went off the right-side of the road and hit a tree, Winston-Salem police said. Police said they don't yet know why the Ranger went off the road.

Mario O’Keith Strayhorn, 22, injured and arrested on multiple charges after he crashes his car into another vehicle, flees the scene, and then crashes his car into a house on Front St. and Ridgecrest Ave. in Burlington, North Carolina

Date: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC
A man who crashed his car into a house Thursday evening is accused of driving the wrong way down another street minutes earlier — all while being “extremely impaired.” Burlington police were searching for the 1994 Honda Accord driven by Mario O’Keith Strayhorn, 22, of Roslyn Drive, after it struck another car while going the wrong way down Fisher Street.

John Otis Hill, 44, killed after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver and dragged over 2 1/2 miles to Kapp Street and Idlewild Industrial Drive, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Date: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC
Winston-Salem police are investigating the death of a pedestrian following a hit-and-run collision Wednesday night. The incident was reported around 9:15 p.m. on North Cleveland Avenue near East 25th Street. Police said the victim, later identified as John Otis Hill, 44, was found about 2 1/2 miles away in the middle of the road at Kapp Street and Idlewild Industrial Drive. The victim was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, where he died. His name hasn't been released.

Aaron Scott Bean, 19, killed, after his car leaves the Baptist Children's Home Road in Thomasville, strikes a utility pole and overturns.

Date: 
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

A 19-year-old man was killed in a crash Monday night near a Triad wastewater treatment plant.

Aaron Scott Bean of Thomasville died in the crash around 8:50 p.m. on Baptist Childrens Home Road in front of the city's wastewater treatment plant.

Bean was going south on Baptist Childrens Home Road when his 1996 Honda Civic went off the road, spun sideways and hit a utility pole, Thomasville police said. The car then went airborne and rolled, police said.

Bean was pronounced dead at the scene.

Taqwesha Antoinette Jones, 22, Mercedes Nicole Washington, 21, 15-year-old passenger injured, all taken to hospitals, after their car, travelling at a high rate of speed, collides with a SUV at an intersection in Winston-Salem

Date: 
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

Three passengers involved in a high-speed collision Thursday evening were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

According to police, the driver of a Ford was driving west on E. Green Drive at a high rate of speed when it collided with an SUV at the intersection of Main Street.

Upon impact, the Ford rotated counter clockwise and slammed backwards into a metal street light pole. Police estimate the car was going between 50 and 60 mph when it struck the SUV.

Reagan Hartley, 22, killed and Ronnie Fichera, 46, critically injured after his SUV collides with a car while going the wrong way on I-40 near Greensboro, North Carolina

Date: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC
A 22-year-old is dead and a male suspect was critically injured after a chase led to a wrong-way, head-on crash on Interstate 40 in Greensboro Thursday night. Reagan Hartley and the suspect, Ronnie Fichera, 46, were injured around 10:20 p.m. just west of the Patterson Street exit. Hartley died on the way to the hospital, and Fichera was taken to a hospital for treatment of critical injuries, Greensboro police said. The crash happened after Fichera's Ford Expedition exited I-40 west at High Point Road, went around Four Seasons Mall and entered I-40 east going westbound, police said.

Desmond Piccini, 16, a student at Eastern Alamance High School, killed, McCray Williams, 16, suffers minor injuries, taken to hospital, after their car leaves the Lebanon Road near Mebane, crashes into a rock wall and overturns.

Date: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

The North Carolina Highway patrol says a 16-year-old died Wednesday afternoon in a single-car crash.

It happened just before 3 p.m. on Lebanon Rd. near Mill Creek Rd. in Orange County.

Troopers said 16-year-old Desmond Piccini of Mebane was driving a 1989 Ford Mustang east on Lebanon Rd. when the car travelled onto the eastbound shoulder.

Piccini apparently overcorrected, causing the car to cross the center line onto the westbound shoulder, where it hit a rock wall and overturned.

19-year-old man killed, when his motorcycle collides with another vehicle, on Highway 601 and West Mount Herman Church Road near Dobson.

Date: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

A 19-year-old man was killed Wednesday in a motorcycle crash in Surry County.

Authorities said the crash happened at Highway 601 and West Mount Herman Church Road about 6:40 p.m.

Investigators said two motorcycles were riding together when the 19-year-old lost control and struck another vehicle.

The victim's identity was not immediately released.

Aubrey Flynn, a toddler, critically injured and her mother, Melissa Flynn, after they are struck by a car in the parking lot of a hospital in Burlington, North Carolina

Date: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC
A girl in a stroller was critically injured after being hit by a car in the parking lot of a hospital early Wednesday morning. Her mother was also injured, and the driver was charged with DWI. Melissa Flynn and her daughter Aubrey were injured around 2:45 a.m. at the Alamance Regional Medical Center emergency room off Huffman Mill Road. Both were rushed to the nearby emergency room, which was their intended destination before the collision, Burlington police said.

Damon Bradley Anderson, 18, Malik Maxwell Patterson, 16, killed, Evan Anderson, 15, Matthew Ellis, 15, seriously injured, transported to hospital, after their car leaves the Haymeadow Road near Hays, at a high rate of speed and crashes into a tree.

Date: 
Friday, March 28, 2014
Area: 
Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

Two teens were killed, and two more were injured, in a Saturday morning wreck in Wilkes County, according to a published report.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol, stated that Damon Bradley Anderson, 18, and Malik Maxwell Patterson, 16, both of North Wilkesboro, were killed in the crash.

The crash happened on Haymeadow Road in Hays.