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A person was taken to the hospital after a truck and a train collided in Greensboro Monday afternoon.
The collision happened at National Pipe and Plastics at 9609 W. Market St. in Colfax.
The driver was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The driver's condition isn't known.
The truck was leaving with a load from the business when the collision happened, Guilford County fire officials said.
Pipes and tubes were scattered following the collision.
A crash involving two tractor-trailers Wednesday morning shut down Interstate 77 south in Surrey County, near the weigh station.
It happened just before 6 a.m. near mile marker 102. At 8 a.m., one of the lanes had reopened. | Mobile users, tap here for photos from the scene.
One person was taken to Baptist Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol said the driver of one of the tractor-trailers fell asleep and collided with another big rig.
A woman from Randolph County, who was traveling in a minivan on E. Kivett Drive, died Wednesday afternoon when the vehicle collided with a truck and was pushed into a utility pole at the intersection with Triangle Lake Road.
The fatality happened at 1:20 p.m., blocking traffic in both directions of Kivett and Triangle Lake for several hours.
High Point police identified the victim as Joyce Ashburn, 61, of Trinity. The driver of the minivan, Ronald Ray Dunn, 68, of Jamestown, was injured, according to police.
A man was killed in a crash after losing control of his pickup truck on an icy bridge Tuesday morning.
Donald Ray Cagle Jr., 40, of Seagrove, died in the single-vehicle crash around 7:15 a.m. on Lanes Mill Road near Coleridge in southeastern Randolph County.
Cagle was driving a Ford Ranger westbound on Lanes Mill Road when he went around a curve and lost control on an icy bridge, troopers said. The truck went off the road to the left, overturned and hit a tree.
Cagle was pinned in the truck and died at the scene.
A falling tree led to a fatal crash in Winston-Salem on Wednesday.
Authorities with the Winston-Salem Police Department said the crash happened in the 2000 block of Reynolda Road.
Investigators said a large tree was uprooted by strong winds and fell onto a Ford Focus being driven by Justin Cardwell, 25, of Winston-Salem.
Cardwell died at the scene of the crash.
Two people were taken to the hospital after an accident involving a tractor-trailer and a car on Interstate 40 eastbound in Davie County early Monday morning.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol said it happened at 12:37 a.m. near Highway 801.
State troopers said Michael Anthony Jones was driving a tractor-trailer when he lost control and hit a car, pushing it into the guardrail. The tractor-trailer then went off the road and down an embankment.
The driver of the car, Patricia Peebles, and a passenger were taken to the hospital.
City police said a 39-year-old woman died in a Monday night crash.
The victim was identified as Amanda Leigh Cook of Winston-Salem.
The crash occurred just after 10:30 p.m. at the on-ramp to U.S. Highway 52, from N.C. Highway 66.
Winston-Salem police said Cook's vehicle went off the side of the road and hit several trees. Cook died at the scene.
It was the fourth traffic fatality of 2014, city police said.