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Raleigh man pleads guilty in fatal Surf City crash

A Raleigh man was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison for a fatal crash in Surf City last fall, authorities said.

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Travis Luckinbill, Surf City crash
HOLLY RIDGE, N.C. — A Raleigh man was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison for a fatal crash in Surf City last fall, authorities said.

Travis Coleman Luckinbill, 21, pleaded guilty to felony death by motor vehicle and felony serious injury by motor vehicle and was sentenced to 14 to 26 months in prison. Superior Court Judge John Nobles also handed down a suspended sentence of 64 to 89 months in prison, with a special condition that Lukinbill serve 22 months at the end of his 14- to 26-month sentence.

Luckinbill, a student at East Carolina University, was eastbound on N.C. Highway 50 on Oct. 6, when his 2006 Jeep Wrangler crossed the center line and collided with a 2015 Toyota Pruis driven by Robin Elizabeth Blankenship of Sneads Ferry, authorities said.

Blankenship died at the scene, and her 2-year-old son, Jaxon, suffered a skull fracture and spent weeks at New Hanover Regional Hospital, authorities said.

Luckinbill and his passenger also were injured in the crash.

At the time of the crash, Luckinbill was under the influence of marijuana, Xanax, ecstasy and the psychedelic drug MDA, authorities said.

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