RANDLEMAN, NC : High-speed crash on I-73 kills driver on Sunday, 2nd September 2018
Randleman, North Carolina
A high-speed wreck Sunday on Interstate 73 near the Level Cross exit took the life of a Washington, D.C., woman.
According to a press release from the N.C. Highway Patrol, on Sunday, Sept. 2, at 3:47 p.m. troopers in Randolph County responded to a single-vehicle, fatal collision on I-73 near the 86 mile-marker.
A 2018 Nissan Sentra driven by Elandra Lavern Butts, 25, of Washington, D.C., was traveling north at a high rate of speed.
Butts used the grass median to attempt to pass a vehicle in the left lane. She lost control of her vehicle, overcorrected, traveled back onto the roadway, off the roadway to the right and then struck a tree. Butts died at the scene.
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