WAKE FOREST, N.C. — A deer caused a three-vehicle crash Sunday evening in northeast Wake County in which two people were killed and 12 were injured, authorities said.
A church van from First Missionary Baptist Church of Smithfield was southbound on N.C. Highway 96 at about 5:30 p.m. when it struck the deer near Barham Siding Road and lost control, authorities said. The van then side-swiped a Toyota van before colliding head-on with a Dodge SUV.
The driver of the SUV, 62-year-old Deborah Powell of Roxboro, and a passenger in the church van, William Henderson Clayton, 84, were pronounced dead at the scene.