Single car crash in downtown Raleigh Saturday morning kills driver, police say
A sedan crashed in downtown Raleigh early Saturday morning, killing the driver, the Raleigh Police Department said.
Officers responded to the 300 block of West Martin Street at 3:13 a.m., police said. They found a Mercedes-Benz S550 that had hit a building and a tree at a high speed. The driver, Michael Graham, 36, was pronounced dead on the scene.
Police said Graham was not wearing a seatbelt, though he was still inside the car when officers found him.
Graham’s car was travelling west on Martin Street from the Fayetteville Street area when it struck a parked vehicle at 310 W. Martin St., according to police’s preliminary investigation. The S550 then veered onto the sidewalk and crashed into a building at 320 W. Martin St.
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Twumasi Duah-Mensah
The News & Observer