A man was killed shortly after midnight when his car ran off the road and hit a tree on New Hope Road near Sue Ellen Drive, according to Jim Sughrue, spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department.
The driver, Enrico Torrance McLeod, was alone in the vehicle. The accident happened shortly after 12:30 a.m. McLeod was transported to WakeMed, where he later died, Sughrue said.
The cause of the wreck is not yet known, according to the police.
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