Two people were killed and four others injured, two of them critically, in a Monday morning crash at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The head-on collision happened about 11 a.m. near the Pea Island Visitors Center. A blue Dodge Caravan traveling south on two-lane N.C. 12 moved into the northbound lane and struck a blue Chevrolet Suburban, said N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. M.T. Bryan. The Caravan’s driver, 26-year-old Elijah Midgette of Rodanthe, died at the scene, as did the Suburban’s driver, 68-year-old Carolyn Elmore of Bracey in Mecklenburg County.
Four passengers in the Suburban were injured. Two of them – an 88-year-old Blackridge woman, and a 76-year-old Bracey woman – were both in critical condition Tuesday at Norfolk General Hospital, Bryan said. Two others, a 75-year-old and a 67-year-old were hospitalized in fair condition.
No passengers were in the Dodge Caravan.
The crash occurred in a 55 mph speed zone, Bryan said. Police were still trying to determine why Midgette’s Caravan moved into the oncoming lane.
N.C. 12, the only road connecting Hatteras Island to the rest of the Outer Banks and the mainland, was closed in both directions for about three hours after the crash.
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