I-85 closure causes delays in Granville County

Name: I-85 closure causes delays in Granville County
Uploaded: 2025-04-25T09:09:00.000Z
Duration: 1 min 17 s
Description: A North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper said a passenger car hit a guardrail and spun out onto the roadway in the northbound lanes near Exit 206 (US 158). The tractor-trailer subsequently crashed into the car, causing the 18-wheeler to flip over and catch fire.

A North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper said a passenger car hit a guardrail and spun out onto the roadway in the northbound lanes near Exit 206 (US 158). The tractor-trailer subsequently crashed into the car, causing the 18-wheeler to flip over and catch fire.

Posted 4/25/2025, 9:09:00 AM Updated 4/25/2025, 4:48:01 PM

OFFICIALS WHO ASKED FOR FEDERAL

IMMIGRATION EFFORTS.

WELL, THANKS, TROOPERS BELIEVE

ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR IN A CRASH

ON I-85 NEAR OXFORD IN

GRANVILLE THIS IS WRAL DRONE

VIDEO OF THE SCENE. ONCE CREWS

PUT OUT THE FIRE AND BEGAN

REMOVING DEBRIS, THE ROAD

REOPENED AROUND 9.

>> AS KELSEY COFFEE REPORTS,

THE CRASH DID IMPACT THE

MORNING COMMUTE

>> CREWS SPENT HOURS CLEANING

UP AFTER THIS CRASH ON I-85 1

LANE OF THE HIGHWAY WAS CLOSED

AND DRIVERS WERE FORCED TO TAKE

A DETOUR ONTO HIGHWAY ONE.

58 THROUGHOUT THE MORNING

COMMUTE, A VIEWER SENT THIS

VIDEO TO OUR NEWSROOM. YOU CAN

SEE AN 18 WHEELER ENGULFED IN

FLAMES. STATE HIGHWAY PATROL

SAYS A CAR HIT A GUARDRAIL AND

SPUN OUT. THE 18 WHEELER HIT.

THAT CAR FLIPPED OVER AND

CAUGHT FIRE AND CHP SAYS THAT

18 WHEELER WAS CARRYING

GROCERIES. SO CREWS HAD TO

CLEAN UP FOOD THAT WAS

SCATTERED ALL OVER THE HIGHWAY.

A VIDEO FROM DRONE 5 CAPTURES

THE AFTERMATH OF THIS CRASH.

THE TRUCK DRIVER HAS MINOR

INJURIES AND THE OTHER DRIVER

HAS SERIOUS INJURIES. WE'RE

WORKING TO GET AN UPDATE ON

THEIR CONDITION. SHP BELIEVES

THE PERSON WHO WAS DRIVING THE

CAR HAD BEEN DRINKING AND

ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR IN THIS