Woman killed on motorcycle identified
York County Interim Coroner Sabrina Gast Sunday identified the motorcyclist killed Saturday in a collision with a pickup truck as 46-year-old Peggy Jean Landry of Lancaster.
Two others on a separate motorcycle also were struck by the pickup truck and remained in critical condition at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte on Sunday night, a nursing supervisor said. They are Ronald Herring, 52, and Barbara Herring, 48, both of 2922 Starnes Road.
The crash occurred at about 4:20 p.m. Saturday on Lesslie Highway at the intersection with Springdale Road.
Both Landry and the Herrings were headed northbound on Lesslie Highway and stopping for the intersection when they were struck from behind by a pickup truck driven by Michael Walter Reid, 19, of 408 Homeplace Road, according to Cpl. Bryan McDougald of the S.C. Highway Patrol. Reid has been charged with felony driving under the influence involving a death and two counts of felony DUI involving great bodily injury, McDougald said.
Wreck kills 3 in Raleigh
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Authorities have charged a man with driving while intoxicated and several felonies after police say he drove his van the wrong direction on Interstate 440, slamming into another vehicle and killing three.
Thirty-year-old Francisco Javier Martinez was charged Sunday with DWI, three counts of felony death by motor vehicle and two counts of felony injury by motor vehicle.
A police report shows the wreck killed 26-year-old Guillermo Zintzun Jimenez, 21-year-old Dagoberto Zintzun Jimenez and 14-year-old Santiago Pascual Tellez. They were all from the Raleigh area.
The crash early Sunday morning shut down traffic on part of Raleigh's beltline for four hours.
Authorities investigating fatal fall at Chimney Rock
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities are still investigating how a 2-year-old South Carolina boy fell to his death at Chimney Rock Park.
Officials said the child has been identified as Giovani Chavez. Mary Jaeger-Gale, general manager of Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park, said the family is from Spartanburg.
The boy's parents are Bibiana and Arturo Chavez.
Officials have said that the boy fell Saturday morning. Jaeger-Gale said rangers were able to quickly reach the boy after his fall along the steep Skyline-Cliff Trail Loop.
"It was several, several feet," Jaeger-Gale told the Asheville Citizen-Times. "We do not know the exact location that he fell from, but the general area is a steep cliff area."
Two climbers rappelled down the cliff to help the boy, but he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Park Superintendent Adrienne Wallace said that it's unknown how the boy got past fencing that lines the trails.
