{"id":456775,"date":"2026-02-08T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456775\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:58:15","slug":"passenger-killed-in-i-40-crash-near-garner-involving-box-truck-driver-faces-charges-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456775\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger killed in I-40 crash near Garner involving box truck, driver faces charges :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person was killed early Sunday in a crash along Interstate 40 East at Jones Sausage Road, near Garner.<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Highway Patrol, the driver of a Lexus will face charges after the Lexus ran off the right side of the road and crashed into a box truck that was parked on the right shoulder waiting for mechanical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger in the Lexus died at the scene, and the driver was injured and transported to WakeMed. The box truck driver was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Speeding and alcohol are suspected to be involved, and charges are pending for the driver of the Lexus, State Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple lanes were closed\u00a0from about 2 a.m. to 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The WRAL Breaking News Tracker was there as crews worked\u00a0to remove pieces of truck from the top of the Lexus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was killed early Sunday in a crash along Interstate 40 East at Jones Sausage Road, near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,451,25051,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-456775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-i-40","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}