Driver killed in Cary wreck to be buried in Arlington

Cary, N.C. — Services were scheduled in Virginia on Friday for a man who died Monday in a wreck in Cary, where police are still searching for the driver of a vehicle that they say caused the crash.

Lincoln Ross Woods, 25, died in the wreck on Morrisville Carpenter Road when a bus swerving to avoid a third car hit his Jeep.

Visitation was set for the Peninsula Funeral Home in Newport News, Va., at 6 p.m. Thursday. The funeral service was set for the same location Friday at 11 a.m.

Woods will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.

He served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a deployment to Iraq, according to his obituary in the Daily Press, in Virginia.

Woods worked as an air traffic controller at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. He left behind a wife, Ashley, who is pregnant with a daughter.

Cary police said they are still looking for the gray Ford Taurus that witnesses said ran a stop sign and caused the bus driver to swerve. Officers have not filed any charges, but were working with the Wake County District Attorney's Office.

Anyone with information should call Cary Police at 919-469-4012.

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Who swerves into oncoming traffic to avoid an obstacle? I get that someone blew through a stop sign, but that person must have been going in the same direction as the bus--its a T-intersection, so the person with the stop sign had to turn right or left.

I believe they turned right (going west); I am assuming the person who died was traveling east to go to work. If the car that ran the stop sign turned left, he/she would have turned into the path of the bus AND the Jeep and probably would have been hit by one or the other. My opinion is that this bus driver was at fault to some extent by inattention or speed, but likely inexperience.

The person who ran the stop sign contributed, no doubt. But at any time, an obstacle can come into your lane and you have to be prepared for that. You can't just swerve into oncoming traffic especially when you are piloting such a large dangerous vehicle.