Automobile Accidents

• Drunk Driver Kills Man in Rowan County

  Shannon Weidemann | October 06, 2007 5:10 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A drunk driver hit another car and killed a man and injured a child. The car accident happened in Rowan County on Thursday night. He was driving on Interstate 85 going in the wrong direction at the time of the accident. Troopers say he got onto Interstate 85 at Lane Street in Cabarrus County around 11:30 p.m. Thursday and went the wrong direction. A vehicle going the correct direction...

• Wallace Car Accident Kills Two

  Shannon Weidemann | September 27, 2007 8:48 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  Two people are dead and three children are injured after a car accident in Wallace this morning. The victims were from Wadesboro. Someone that lives near the crash scene said that many accidents happen at that intersection. Just before 10:00 Thursday morning, Highway Patrol said the family's minivan collided with a flatbed truck at the intersection of Hwy 9 and 912 near Wallace.Highway...

• Charlotte Police Officer in Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | September 20, 2007 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A police officer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department was involved in a car accident in his cruiser today. He was driving to the scene of another car accident and was attempting to go through an intersection on a red light. The driver of the other car had a revoked license and was driving anyway. Peterson said the officer was traveling on Central Avenue, headed to the accident...

• Annapolis Motorcycle Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | September 04, 2007 3:03 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A 25-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident on Sunday in Annapolis. The victim was from Edgewater. He was driving his motorcycle in a construction zone when the accident happened. The victim tried to merge left from a right-turn-only lane on southbound Route 2 near Forest Drive, swerved back to the right when he saw traffic approaching from behind, and went off the road, past the...

• Person Killed in Charlotte Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | August 27, 2007 10:06 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A man was killed in a single car accident in Charlotte last week. He drove the car into a utility pole and then a building. Rescue teams had to use the Jaws of Life. The victim died at the scene of the accident. It happened off of Old Concord Road in northeast Charlotte.Investigators believe the driver of the car was driving too fast when he hit a sharp curve in the road. That caused the...

• Newberry Car Accident Kills Boy

  Shannon Weidemann | August 14, 2007 10:53 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A car accident in Newberry has left an 11-year-old boy dead. The tragic chain of events began when the car he was a passenger in hit the guardrail. His mother was driving the vehicle. Shortly after coming to rest, their vehicle was struck by another vehicle. The mother, in an attempt to get her children to safety, got her children and started for the side of the road, when a pickup truck...

• North Carolina Car Accident Kills Six

  Shannon Weidemann | August 02, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A woman who had just registered her car in North Carolina got into a fatal car accident last week. The car accident happened on U.S. 58. The driver and five passengers in the car were all killed. It is believed that they were all from New York City. The westbound car crossed a grassy median just after 4 p.m. Tuesday and collided head-on with a truck. Two men in the truck, which was...

• Greensboro Car Accident Kills National Guard Member

  Shannon Weidemann | July 28, 2007 2:28 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A man that spent six years in the Marines and one year in the North Carolina National Guard was killed in a car accident while on his way to a drill in Morrisville. No other vehicles were involved in the accident. The 29-year-old man was the only person in his car and no one else was hurt. The National Guard says Lynch was traveling to a drill at the 130th Aviation Regiment in Morrisville,...

• Car Drives Wrong Way on Freeway in Charlotte

  Shannon Weidemann | July 14, 2007 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A woman drove her car the wrong way down Brookshire Freeway in Charlotte and caused a head-on car accident. The police believe she was driving while impaired. The driver was driving a Dodge Neon on the freeway near Interstate 85 at 9:30 p.m. Thursday when she collided with a van from the Bible Way Apostolic Church, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. She has been charged with driving...

• Woman Dies in Charlotte Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | July 04, 2007 9:43 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A van and an SUV collided on Interstate 77 killing one woman and injuring six others. The car accident happened in Charlotte. The family in the SUV was from Thomasville. It is believed no one in the SUV was wearing a seat belt and they were all ejected from the vehicle. A Thomasville family was traveling to South Carolina when their SUV was involved in an accident on I-77. The SUV was...