Police identify man killed when car strikes pedestrians on Holloway Street in Durham

Police identified a pedestrian killed on Holloway Street Sunday evening as 53-year-old Craig Day of Graham, N.C.

Officers responded around 6 p.m. after a 2015 Kia Optima hit two pedestrians in the 1400 block of Holloway Street east of downtown.

Emergency Medical Services workers treated one man at the scene, the Durham Police Department said in a news release.

Day was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died, the release stated.

The 31-year-old driver remained on the scene and cooperated with police, the release stated. No charges had been announced as of Tuesday morning.

The crash remains under investigation, and police are asking anyone with information to call Investigator G.L. Munter at 919-560-4935 ext. 29448.

Buttigieg visited Holloway Street

In five years ending in 2021, there were 46 crashes involving pedestrians along Holloway Street, causing three deaths and four serious injuries, The News & Observer previously reported.

In July, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came to Holloway Street to see where $12 million in federal money will help build new sidewalks, crosswalks and bus shelters, The N&O reported. The city also plans to fill in more than a mile of missing sidewalks.

There are sidewalks where Sunday’s incident occurred, as well as a crosswalk about 50 feet from where the two men were crossing, but they were not in the crosswalk, a police spokesperson wrote in an email to The N&O on Tuesday.

This story was originally published November 11, 2024 at 1:13 PM.