By - Associated Press - Sunday, April 4, 2021
NEWTON GROVE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say that a police officer from North Carolina’s Sampson County has died in a single-car crash.
WNCN reports that the accident occurred Saturday night and involved an officer from the Newton Grove Police Department.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said the officer was Brent Nelson Hall, 26, of Clinton. The patrol said that he was driving to begin his shift in a department-owned Dodge Charger at a “high rate of speed” on U.S. 701 Business/Northeast Boulevard.
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Wreck in North Carolina claims the lives of mother and baby Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Sunday, April 4, 2021
CLAYTON, N.C. (AP) - A mother and her 2-month-old child have died in a car wreck in North Carolina’s Johnston County.
The Raleigh News & Observer reports that the accident occurred Friday afternoon east of Clayton and north Selma on U.S. 42
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said that the mother who died was Virginia Reyes, 22, of Clinton. Her baby died at a local hospital.
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Wrong-way crash closes portion of North Carolina highway
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MIDDLESEX, N.C. (AP) A suspected drunk driver was hospitalized Friday after a head-on crash with a tractor-trailer, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.
Troopers said the driver of a Dodge Charger was heading eastbound in the westbound lanes of U.S. 264 around midnight Friday when it hit the tractor-trailer, WNCN reported. The unidentified driver, who was pinned inside the vehicle, was taken by helicopter to a Raleigh hospital with serious injuries, including multiple bones.
The patrol also says the truck driver was also taken to the hospital for minor injuries. Troopers say charges are pending in the accident.
Truck carrying RADIOACTIVE uranium hexafluoride crashes into a van on I-95 in North Carolina causing hours of delays as HAZMAT crews were called to the scene
The North Carolina crash prompted several hours of delays and temporary evacuations as HAZMAT crews responded to the scene on Wednesday
The truck carrying uranium hexafluoride, a chemical that can be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants
Two of the four 1,000-gallon containers of uranium hexafluoride on the truck had fallen from it during the crash
However, none of the material appeared to leak from its containers
It had collided with a passenger van around 11.30am, officials with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said
Police in North Carolina converged on an apartment complex Thursday morning and arrested the alleged killer of a Lancaster County woman in what appeared to have been a road rage incident on a North Carolina highway a week ago.
The suspect Dejywan R. Floyd, 29, of Lumberton, North Carolina, was arrested about 12:38 a.m., and was placed in a detention facility without bail.
Floyd is charged with first degree murder and discharging a weapon into an occupied property, according to Robeson County, North Carolina, Sheriff Burnis Wilkins.
Sheriff s deputies and other law enforcement officials had been searching for Floyd in connection with the March 25 shooting death of Julie Eberly, 47, of Manheim. Police say Floyd fired a gun into the car in which Eberly was a passenger.