The fifth person since Tuesday has died in a traffic crash.

The investigating trooper believes a 21-year-old Whitakers area woman may have negotiated a curve too fast before over-correcting and driving into a creek most likely Tuesday morning.

The state Highway Patrol is reporting two fatalities from Thursday, making a total of four within the last two days.

The state Highway Patrol will be meeting with the district attorney’s office to determine whether charges will be filed in a crash Wednesday afternoon that claimed the life of a mother and her child.

A woman and child died in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 186 outside Seaboard Wednesday afternoon.

The state Highway Patrol plans to conduct an aggressive campaign to reduce pedestrian fatalities. 

Some 35,000 pounds of frozen chicken leg quarters were cleaned from Interstate 95 this morning after the driver of the rig hauling them apparently fell asleep at the wheel and overturned the vehicle.

A Roanoke Rapids area woman died in a head-on crash Wednesday night on Thelma Road.

While people are bound to celebrate New Year's Eve regardless of the day it falls on, the state Highway Patrol expects more people to be out because it falls on a Saturday.

A 26-year-old Rich Square woman has been charged in a November 26 fatal crash in which a 10-year-old boy died.