Worker killed when driver crashes into I-40 work zone, NC Highway Patrol says
A 20-year-old Smithfield man was charged after the State Highway Patrol says he crashed into a construction work zone and fatally hit a worker on Interstate 40.
The crash happened around 3 a.m. Wednesday near the 303 mile marker in Garner.
The worker, Claude Tyler Bryant, 33, of Rocky Mount, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Jeyson Alexander Murcia-Guillen was charged with felony death by vehicle and other crimes and was taken to Wake County jail, where he is being held on $1 million bail, according to a news release.
Murcia-Guillen is accused of crashing into a work zone while traveling east in a Chevrolet SUV.
He fled the scene on foot before authorities detained him after 4 a.m., according to an arrest report.
Murcia-Guillen is charged with felony death by vehicle, felony hit and run causing injury/death, failure to move over causing injury/death, driving after consuming, no operator’s license, careless and reckless driving to danger, resisting a public officer, fictitious registration, operating a vehicle without insurance and failure to maintain lane control.
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This story was originally published May 3, 2023 at 10:29 AM.
