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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.
Posted 2020-12-12T22:05:19+00:00 - Updated 2020-12-16T17:15:59+00:00
Crash kills one, closes I-40 ramp at S. Saunders Street
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."