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A woman has been charged in a deadly crash that happened in east Charlotte Thursday night.
Overnight, police charged Keren Velasquez with causing the wreck that killed one of the passengers in her car.
Police said Velasquez lost control of her SUV when she tried to change lanes on Albemarle Road near Mallard Drive around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Officers said Karina Velasquez was thrown from the vehicle and died.
Two children who were passengers in the vehicle have minor injuries and police said one of them was not in his car seat properly.
A woman was killed and a man arrested after a vehicle crash in northwest Charlotte, according to Charlotte Mecklenburg Police.
The accident happened on Brookshire Boulevard at I-485 around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Police say a woman, later identified as 53-year-old Annie Louise Roller, was stopped at a red light on the off-ramp of I-485. When her light turned green, she attempted to make a left turn onto outbound Brookshire.
One person was killed and another injured in a car accident in southwest Charlotte Tuesday evening.
The wreck happened near the intersection of Tryon Street and Tyvola Road in southwest Charlotte around 8:30 p.m.
Police confirmed that 39-year-old Ramez Ahmed Shams Eldin, was killed in the crash, and 50-year-old Michael Perrella was taken to an area hospital.
Police say Perrella was speeding and hit Eldin's Jeep from the rear with his Ford Expedition, causing both to spin out of control.
One person was killed after being struck by a vehicle in west Charlotte, according to Medic.
The incident happened on the 3200 block of Wilkinson Boulevard near Donald Ross Road around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
The pedestrian, 55-year-old Ronald Renel Vance, was killed as he was trying to cross Wilkinson Boulevard from the Wal-Mart to get to his home, police say.
He was hit by a 2012 Hyundai Sonata being driven by 33-year-old Leah Gatewood.
Jaclyn Pobiega, 36, killed, after a two-car crash on Doby Bridge Road near Fort Mill in York County.
Emergency officials responded to a car accident on a South Carolina highway Tuesday afternoon.
The wreck happened just before 6:30 on Doby Bridge Road near Highway 521 in Fort Mill.
A woman, later identified as 36-year-old Jaclyn Pobiega, was killed in the crash.
Officials have not said what may have led to the accident or released any other names involved.
One person is dead after a wreck in York County. According to the highway patrol, the accident happened around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on Dobys Bridge Road. Troopers say William Taylor, 32, was driving east on Dobys Bridge Road, when he drove off the left side of the road and struck a Volkswagen head-on. The 36-year-old driver of the Volkswagen was pronounced dead at the scene. Taylor was not injured. This accident remains under investigation.
A Salisbury man's desire to listen to a few tunes in a friend's car hit a sour note when he crashed the car into an apartment building.
Police say Malik Eric Johnson, 18, of Standish Street, was in the car of a friend in the parking lot at Zion Hills Apartments earlier this week.
At some point, Johnson hit the gas, catapulting the car over the curb and into an outside wall of an apartment.
A woman sitting in her apartment on the couch was pushed forward by the impact that made a hole in the wall, and pushed the outside wall four feet forward, according to police.
A Charlotte, N.C. man is dead after a skiing accident at Colorado’s Keystone Ski Resort.
Sixty-year-old Lee Hurley died Thursday after hitting a tree on an intermediate run.
The Summit County coroner said Hurley was in Colorado on a ski vacation with his family.