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Troopers: Crashes kill 10 across NC during Thanksgiving holiday

Ten people died on North Carolina's roadways during the Thanksgiving holiday, state troopers said Monday.

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North Carolina State Highway Patrol
RALEIGH, N.C. — Ten people died on North Carolina’s roadways during the Thanksgiving holiday, state troopers said Monday.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol investigated the crashes from 6 p.m. Wednesday through midnight Sunday. The number of fatalities was down slightly from last year, when 11 motorists died on the state’s major roadways.

Troopers investigated the following crashes this year:

• N.C. Highway 130, Holden Beach
• State Road 1322, Salemburg
• State Road 1647, near Cherryville
• N.C. Highway 273, Belmont
• N.C. highway 279, near Dallas
• U.S. 70, near Beaufort
• State Road 1103, near Wilkesboro)
• U.S. 64, near Franklin
• U.S. 117, Mount Olive
• N.C. Highway 41, near Lumberton

 

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