On February 21, 2008 in Greenville, North Carolina, traffic was blocked at Arlington Boulevard and West Fifth Street for about three hours after a 20 year-old nursing student was involved in a fatal car accident.

According to authorities, the female nursing student died when her Chevrolet Cavalier was struck by a Ford Explorer. The two vehicles collided in the intersection and an investigation is ongoing. The woman was a nursing student and activist at Pitt Community College.

Source: “Nursing student killed in wreck,” The Daily Reflector, February 21, 2008.