After steadily decreasing the past 40 years, the number of victims killed in highway car crashes has spiked dramatically. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 35,000 people were killed in car crashes last year – almost 10 percent increase from the year before. The data is collected through the agency’s…
An 18-year-old passenger suffered fatal injuries when the driver of the car in which she was riding ran a stop sign and collided with another car on the night of October 1, 2016. The deadly crash happened just north of Zebulon, North Carolina (NC), at the Franklin County intersection of Pilot-Riley Road and Williams-White Road. …
A fiery pileup crash on I-40 has left at least one person dead. The crash occurred this morning at approximately 10 a.m. in the westbound lanes near exit 280 in Durham County. Law enforcement reports that a vehicle was stopped in one of the lanes because of traffic when it was suddenly rear-ended by another…
The North Carolina Highway Patrol say a chain-reaction car crash that occurred on I-540 in Wake County has left one woman dead. The fatal auto accident took place Monday night, on the westbound lanes near Leesville Road. According to police, the victim, who was from Pittsboro, was driving her 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt behind a Durham…
A tragic car accident in Jackson County has left a woman and her elderly mother dead. The fatal crash occurred at approximately 11 a.m. on Monday, on Route 23S. According to WNCN.com, the two women were 53-year-old Ann Cory Braswell and her 75-year-old mother, Earlene Cory, both from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Police say Ms. Braswell…