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Troopers in Burke County are responding to a deadly overturned tractor trailer crash on Interstate 40 eastbound that has shut down one lane.
One person is dead, according to NC Highway Patrol, and another person was taken to the hospital.
The incident was reported at 7 a.m. at mile marker 113 in Morganton, according to the NCDOT.
No word yet on what caused the semi to overturn though troopers say it wasn't ice.
Troopers stated that one man was driving and another was in the sleeper.
A woman was killed in a car accident on the interstate Thursday evening, according to Charlotte firefighters.
The accident happened shortly before 9 p.m. on southbound I-77 near the North and South Carolina state line.
State Troopers stated that a woman was driving northbound on I-77 when she collided with a tractor trailer. Her vehicle flipped and came to rest on the southbound side of the interstate.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name has not been released.
Emergency officials are on the scene of a fatal accident in Union County, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
The accident happened just before 4 p.m. on Monroe-Ansonville Road near the intersection of Trull Hinson Road, just north of the town of Wingate.
Officials confirmed that at least one person was killed in the wreck.
Two vehicles, a white pickup truck and a silver four-door car, could be seen with heavy front-end damage just off the road.
A teen driver is being charged in connection to a Monday accident that left a 14-year-old girl dead, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.
The incident happened just after 2:30 p.m. on the 4500 block of Camp Stewart Road in east Charlotte.
Police say that 18-year-old Dayron Warren was driving a 1994 Honda Passport when he went into a curve and lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle then slid sideways and flipped several times.
Warren, as well as a 14-year-old girl who officials say was in the front passenger seat, were both ejected from the SUV.
Police in Charlotte say a man has been charged after a woman riding in his vehicle was killed in a crash with a tractor trailer early Monday morning.
According to police, Adoma Connor's 1988 Lincoln Town Car was involved in a wreck along the 3900 block of N. Graham Street on Monday morning.
Connor told police that his car " shuttered" and he applied the brakes. That's when he says the car suddenly turned to the left and stopped across both southbound lanes of North Graham.
Connor told officers that he was unable to move the car due to a bad shift linkage.