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Raleigh police closed northbound Creedmoor Road near the intersection with West Millbrook Road for a time Thursday morning after a car seriously injured a man shortly after 7 a.m.
At the same time, police had to close a section of Sunnybrook Road near Wake Technical Community College Health Sciences Campus because of an accident there.
Police said the man who was struck was in critical condition at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh.
A Raleigh man died Wednesday night after his car ran off the road on the westbound side of Interstate 40 in Johnston County and then flipped over the median cables and stopped on the eastbound side of the highway.
The State Highway Patrol said Ramsis Matta Soliman of 4634 Wedgewood Drive in Raleigh was near mile marker 322 at about 5:15 p.m. when his SUV went off the left side of the road, he over-corrected and went off the right side.
A wreck on westbound Interstate 40 near Reedy Creek Road hampered commuter traffic about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries, but emergency personnel said debris from the crash interfered with traffic.
The state Department of Transportation said the shoulder and median were closed.
The driver of a tractor-trailer truck was cited for speeding after he lost control of his rig and spilled a load of lumber on Atlantic Avenue on Tuesday morning.
No injuries were reported, but it took workers most of Tuesday to clear the lumber from the road.
The accident occurred just after 7:30 a.m. on Atlantic Avenue near the intersection of Stillwell Court, according to Raleigh police accident report.
A 23-year-old mother Monday faced a felony charge of negligent child abuse inflicting serious injury because, Raleigh police said in an arrest warrant, she had her 2-year-old son unrestrained in the back seat of a car when it wrecked when she was driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone.
Diamond Diandra Whyte of 1021 River Chase Drive, near Clayton, was arrested after the accident at 9:45 p.m. Sunday.
Police charged that she ran a stop sign at the intersection of North Rogers Lane and Thunderidge Drive while going 70 mph on wet roads and lost control of the car.
A woman was killed and a man injured Thursday morning when an Amtrak passenger train hit a car at a rail crossing in Cary, officials said.
The collision occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. at a Maynard Road crossing near Old Apex Road.
The Cary Police Department said it appears that Benny Derrick Dimery tried to drive around the lowered crossing arm, and his car was on the track when the northbound Amtrak Silver Star train hit it at about 50 mph.
Dimery, 24, of Laurinburg, was taken to WakeMed for treatment, but his condition was unknown.