Name: Two dead in multiple vehicle collision in Johnston County on I-95
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Description: Highway Patrol has confirmed two people have died in a head-on collision in Johnston County Thursday afternoon.

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Highway Patrol has confirmed two people have died in a head-on collision in Johnston County Thursday afternoon. 

WEEKEND BEFORE SECOND SYSTEM ROLLS IN. >> WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW AT 6, A LARGE PART OF I-NINETY-FIVE CLOSED AFTER 2 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THIS CRASH. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I'M GERALD OWENS AND I'M LENA TILLETT. THIS CRASH HAS TRAFFIC BACKED UP FOR SEVERAL MILES. YOU CAN SEE THE SLOWDOWN ON THE TRAFFIC MAP HERE. MARK BOYLE IS IN THE WRAL LIVE CENTER TO BREAK DOWN HOW TO GET AROUND THIS FOR YOUR DRIVE HOME. WE WANT TO BEGIN, THOUGH, WITH ERIC MILLER IN THE WRAL BREAKING NEWS TRACKER LIVE FOR US ON THE SCENE TONIGHT. >> TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENING. ERIC'S. >> RIGHT BEHIND ME, THIS IS THE SCENE OF THE CRASH ITSELF. YOU CAN SEE THERE HAS BEEN A BIT OF PROGRESS. HERE ARE SOME OF THE WRECKERS STARTING TO GET INTO POSITION TO ACTUALLY BEGIN CLEARING SOME OF THESE VEHICLES AWAY. >> FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING US INTO WHAT CAUSED THIS CRASH IN THE FIRST PLACE. WANT TO SET YOU UP TO SKY 5 RIGHT NOW. GIVE YOU THE OVERHEAD. LOOK AT THE SCENE. GET ASSURANCE OF THIS DAMAGE. YOU CAN SEE THERE WERE 3 VEHICLES INVOLVED. THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL TROOPERS TELLING US JUST MINUTES AGO THAT THAT BOX TRUCK, THE WHITE BOX TRUCK YOU SEE ON SCENE HAD A BLOWOUT WHILE TRAVELING IN THE NORTHBOUND LANES. THE DRIVER THEN LOST CONTROL, CROSSED OVER THIS INTERMEDIATE. >> AND HIT A PICKUP TRUCK HEAD ON WITH 2 PEOPLE INSIDE THAT PICKUP TRUCK WERE UNFORTUNATELY KILLED 2 PEOPLE IN THE BOX TRUCK WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. WE'RE STILL WORKING TO LEARN WHAT THEIR CONDITION AT THIS TIME. WELL, THE 3RD VEHICLE INVOLVED THERE IN SUV ENDED UP HITTING A TRAILER THAT THE BOX TRUCK IS TOWING. WE'RE TOLD THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN THAT SUV ACTUALLY DOING OK TO MANAGE AMAZINGLY TO ESCAPE FROM THIS TERRIBLE ACCIDENT WITHOUT INJURIES AS TO HOW LONG THINGS ARE GOING TO TAKE BEFORE THEY'RE COMPLETELY CLEANED UP HERE. WE'RE TOLD WE MAY HAVE A LANE OF 95 SOUTHBOUND OPEN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HOURS, LITERALLY IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES HERE. AND IT MAY BE AS LITTLE AS 20 MINUTES BEFORE BOTH OF THESE LANES REOPENED ITS BEEN HOURS OF WAITING. WE'VE SEEN FOLKS OUT HERE WALKING THEIR DOGS, HAVING A SNACK CHATTING TO OTHER PEOPLE IN LINE. THAT IS HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN STOPPED. STILL, THOUGH, A MAJOR MESS THAT WE'RE KEEPING A VERY CLOSE EYE ON AS THE BACKUPS WILL TAKE A LONG TIME TO CLEAR. LET'S GET OVER TO MARK BOYLE WITH THAT SIDE OF THE STORY. >> ERIC, THE RESIDUAL DELAY, AS YOU TALKED ABOUT, IS STRETCHING FOR MILES SKY 5 SHOWING US THAT PICTURE RIGHT NOW AS IT IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE AS WE CONTINUE TO GO INTO THE THICK OF RUSH HOUR HERE THIS EVENING AT THE TOP OF OUR 6 O'CLOCK NEWS LOOKING AT THE TRAFFIC MAPS, A LOT OF RED OUT THERE ALL THE WAY FROM SMITHFIELD DOWN THROUGH 4 OAKS INTO BENSON, SOUTHBOUND LANES OF 95 STILL CLOSE. AS ERIK MENTIONED, NORTHBOUND LANES, ONLY ONE LANE GETTING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE AROUND IN THAT AREA AND WORK THROUGH THIS SCENE AS IT CONTINUES TO BE A REAL TRAFFIC HEADACHE. FOR THOSE WHO ARE COMMUTING THROUGH THE AREA ON I-95 SOUTHBOUND AND NORTHBOUND IN THE 4 OAKS AREA WILL KEEP YOU UP TO DATE AS THIS STORY DEVELOPS. AND WHEN THAT ROAD

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Two dead in multiple vehicle collision in Johnston County on I-95

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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.

Sky 5 flies over RDU plane crash 3 hours later 

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Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

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>

Two dead in multiple vehicle collision in Johnston County on I-95

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