Police are still trying to determine why a car went off a road, through a parking lot and into a large pine tree, killing one of the passengers Friday morning.
Lisa Howard Leak of Raleigh was driving west on Chapanoke Road with three passengers when she crossed two on-coming lanes and left the pavement.
Leak’s four-door Toyota travelled up a hill, through a parking lot and the corner of a soccer field before hitting the tree, according to a Raleigh police accident report. The car drove between two small trees and between parked vehicles before destroying a soccer goal and hitting the tree head on.
