Name: Family of teen killed on Zebulon Road calls for safety improvements
Uploaded: 2023-03-22T19:01:33-0400
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Description: Two members of the Jent family were involved in crashes along North Carolina Highway 96. Now, the family is advocating for traffic changes.

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Two members of the Jent family were involved in crashes along North Carolina Highway 96. Now, the family is advocating for traffic changes.

THROUGH. 95 NEAR LUMBERTON AND FAYETTEVILLE AND I-40, WEST OF ASHEVILLE. >> A WAKE COUNTY FAMILY WANTS SOMETHING TO BE DONE TO MAKE THIS ROAD SAFER AFTER 2 BROTHERS BECAME VICTIMS OF CRASHES HERE. 16 YEAR-OLD DJ JET WAS HIT BY A TRUCK AND KILLED WHILE WALKING TO THE STORE YEAR AGO. LAST MONTH. THE ONE OF HIS OLDER BROTHERS WAS INJURED IN A CRASH ALONG THE SAME STRETCH OF HIGHWAY 96 NEAR ZEBULON WRAL'S MATT TALHELM INVESTIGATES THE STATE'S RESPONSE AFTER DOZENS OF ACCIDENTS HERE. >> DJ GENTS. OLDEST BROTHER HAS WITNESSED ENOUGH OF THOSE CRASHES. BUT EVEN HE WAS SURPRISED WITH WHAT WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE NUMBER OF CRASHES HAPPENING HERE AND INJURING PEOPLE ALONG NC 96 >> A PHOTO FETED BY THE SUN AND STICKERS. CURLY FROM THE ELEMENTS SHOW THE TIME THAT'S PASSED SINCE THE PROCESS WENT UP AS A MEMORIAL TO DJ GENTE JUST KIND OF RECUPERATING AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED. BOBBY JENKS LIVES JUST UP THE ROAD FROM WHERE HIS BABY BROTHER WAS HIT AND KILLED WHILE WALKING TO MITCHELL'S FOOD MART ON NC. 96 SURVEILLANCE VIDEO RECORDED THE SUV THAT HIT HIM CAREENING THROUGH THE PARKING LOT. WE GOT. YOU KNOW, MAYBE. >> 50 YARDS FROM THE STORE AND THE GUY HIT HIM. AND I MEAN, HE WAS DOING EVERY BIT OF 70 MILES AN HOUR. >> THAT WAS FEBRUARY LAST YEAR. A YEAR LATER THEY'RE STEPBROTHER WAS IN THIS CAR THAT WAS HIT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FAMILY'S HOME. AND I WAS LIKE, OH, MY GOD, NOT AGAIN. THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS NOT AGAIN. BOBBY RECORDED THE SCENE ON HIS PHONE WHERE HE'S COLLECTED CLIPS AND PHOTOS OF CRASHES ON NC 9648 STATES IN THE NATION ISN'T OVER THE ROAD TRUCK DRIVER. THE ONLY ACCIDENT I'VE EVER BEEN WAS RIGHT HERE. AND C DOT CRASH DATA REVEALS THERE HAVE BEEN 73 CRASHES IN THE LAST 5 YEARS. 73. >> THAT'S A LOT MORE THAN I >> THIS CRASH IS ALL HAPPENED ALONG A 2 MILE STRETCH OF NC 96 AROUND MITCHELL MILL ROAD. JETT'S DEATH IS THE ONE FATALITY. 37 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED IN CRASHES HERE. OUR ANALYSIS FINDS MORE THAN A 3RD WERE REAR END COLLISIONS. A TEA PARTY'S WITNESSED ENOUGH OF THOSE WRECKS. IT'S NOT SAFE AT ALL THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE SAME FOOD MARK WHERE DJ WAS WALKING THAT DAY LAST YEAR. THIS IS MAINLY THE SPATE OF THE MOST DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE DONE. >> AND C DOT RECENTLY COMPLETED A SAFETY PROJECT HERE PAINTING WIDER LANE MARKINGS ON THE PAVEMENT. THE STATE SAYS THICKER LINES ARE EASIER TO SEE AN ALL-WEATHER AND BETTER WARN DRIVERS IF THEY'RE LEAVING THEIR LATE TO GET THEM CLEAR THIS WAY. AND THEN THEY'RE COMPLYING OVER HILLARY OR HEAR. >> 60, 70, 80 MILES AN HOUR JET ONCE THE SPEED LIMIT LOWERED FROM 55 BEFORE THIS ROAD CLAIMS ANOTHER LIFE. WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BECAUSE NOW WE'VE LOST SOMETHING WE CAN NEVER GET BACK. >> AND C DOT TELLS ME AFTER ANY FATAL CRASH. THEY ALWAYS LOOK AT THE SAFETY OF A ROADWAY. THEY'LL ALSO EXAMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS. THEY'VE ALREADY DONE ALONG. 96 HERE. >> FOR 6 TO 12 MONTHS, MATT TALHELM, WRAL NEWS, WAKE COUNTY. >> THE STATE ENCOURAGES ANYONE WITH A SAFETY CONCERN ABOUT A ROAD TO REACH OUT. YOU CAN DO

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I'm meteorologist K Campbell in the wr a severe weather center. It's been a warm spring so far. In fact, when you look at the spring to date numbers, it's actually the second warmest on record at RDU running about 4.5 degrees above normal and for rainfall about an inch and a half below normal. And we really need some rain. You know, it's been a pretty dry April so far we've seen less than an inch inch of rain this month tomorrow. It's a nice dry day for us, but I, you know, at least it's gonna be a nice day, right? 72 in the Triangle, as well as Siler City in Wilson. 70 in Rocky Mount. 67 though in Roxboro and 67 for Roanoke Rapids, a little cooler to the north. 76 degrees in Fayetteville, 73 Goldsboro in Smithfield and 75 in Southern Pines. It is going to be a little bit cooler in the morning because cold front moved through 50 degrees for the low in the triangle, right around 7 a.m. by 10 a.m. We're in the upper fifties, lunchtime, mid sixties and then in the lower seventies during the afternoon, dinner time, temperatures dip back into the upper sixties. A cold front passed earlier this evening and behind it, we are going to be drying out but cooling down briefly. It's not a huge drop in temperatures, but we will see this dip in the jet stream delivering some cooler air. We start to see a reversal of the jet stream flow and that changes really on Sunday with a warming southwest wind at the surface and at the jet stream level, that's going to drive temperatures up to 80 beginning on Sunday and the eighties will last into next week with a strengthening ridge of high pressure. So we expect a big climb in temperatures just throughout the course of the weekend, 48 degrees Friday morning, but back up to 80 by Sunday afternoon and then much warmer weather is on the way for next week. We're looking at seventies for the next few days with mostly cloudy skies for the weekend days. The sun's back out though next Monday and with a warming wind, we're back in the upper eighties three days in a row all the way up to 89 on Tuesday. Tuesday might be the 1st 90 degree day of the year for parts of North Carolina.

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

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A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


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RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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