WAKE COUNTY, NC — One person is dead and several others are injured after a man struck a group of cyclists, ABC11 reported.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol responded to the crash in Wake County, after a driver struck about 30 bicyclists, police said.
According to ABC11, the driver, Donald Robert Morris-Jones, 76, is facing several charges, including one court of reckless driving, eight counts of felony hit-and-run involving serious injury or death, seven counts of felony serious injury be vehicle, and one count of felony death by vehicle.
NBC News reported that Morris-Jones crossed the center line and struck the group. He then traveled away from the scene, running of the road, and crashed into a ditch a half-mile away.
Police said that the bicyclist who died has been identified as Patrick Turner, 63.
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