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Duke graduate student killed in Raleigh crash

The Interstate 40 Eastbound ramp at South Saunders Street is closed until Saturday evening after someone died in a car crash.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A Duke University graduate student died in a crash on Saturday evening.

Michael Mutersbaugh, of Mclean, Va., was killed in a single-vehicle wreck on the Interstate 40 eastbound ramp at South Saunders Street.

Mutersbaugh was a first-year Ph.D. student in Duke’s neurobiology graduate program.

Raleigh police said Mutersbaugh's car was exiting on the ramp when he lost control, left the road and hit a tree.

A message sent to Duke graduate students said "several other passengers are recovering from their injuries."

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