A 43-year-old Margaretsville woman died this morning in a single vehicle crash on Tower Road, according to the state Highway Patrol.

The man charged in a Monday hit and run in which two pedestrians were killed allegedly concocted a story he was robbed and beaten as a way to account for the injuries he sustained in the crash.

The state Highway Patrol released statistics from its July 4 Booze It and Lose It and Operation Firecracker campaign.

A Hollister man died Tuesday night after he was ejected from his vehicle in a crash 12 miles west of Enfield.

Troopers from the state Highway Patrol have determined the car which struck and killed a Roanoke Rapids woman Saturday morning is either a 1992 through 1994 model Grand Marquis or Crown Victoria from the same years.

The car involved in a fatal hit and run Saturday might not be a Ford Taurus, the investigating trooper said this evening.

The state Highway Patrol is investigating the possibility a 47-year-old Roanoke Rapids woman who died Saturday morning may have been intentionally hit by a car on Branch Avenue in the Lincoln Heights community.

A trip to Wilson Monday night turned deadly for a Roanoke Rapids family when the truck they were traveling in went off the side of Interstate 95.

The state Highway Patrol continues to investigate a Monday night crash in which a 57-year-old local woman died.

A 77-year-old Seaboard woman died in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 186 Wednesday night.