The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a teenager from Efland was killed in Orange County Saturday evening when her car ran off the road and hit a tree.

A 19-year-old woman died Saturday night when her car went off an Orange County highway and struck a stand of trees.

Mary Ann Wilson was 19 years old when a photographer snapped her picture as she was being crowned Queen of the Tobacco Festival in September 1950.

The U.S. Department of Transportation and safety advocates joined Tuesday to announce the creation of FocusDriven , an organization dedicated to raising public awareness about the dangers of driving while talking on cell phones or texting on handheld computers.

Perhaps the sobering particulars of an Orange County mother's death will give Triangle drivers the resolve we need to hang up our phones.

Experts say talking on a cellphone can be a big distraction for drivers and that can have disastrous results.

The sad truth is that Erin Lindsay-Calkins and her five-year-old son, Nicholas, didn't have to die.

Authorities are trying to figure out why a woman was killed standing on one of the main highways along North Carolina's coast.

Hemmed in by cars on both sides of the railroad tracks, Deborah Bingham backed into the path of the speeding Amtrak train that killed her sleeping sons at an East Durham rail crossing, according to a police report released Tuesday.

RALEIGH Authorities say a North Carolina woman was talking on her cell phone when she drove through a railroad crossing into the path of an Amtrak train last week.

Erin Brett Lindsay-Calkins was talking on her mobile phone when she crashed through an Orange County rail crossing gate into the path of a train that struck her car, killing her and her 5-year-old son, the state Highway Patrol reported Wednesday.

Two fatal train-vehicle collisions in the past two weeks have people questioning the safety of railroad crossing arms.

At approximately 10:30 a.m., a vehicle driven by Erin Brett Lindsay-Calkins, 36 of 104 Virginia Lee Lane, Efland, was traveling east on Forrest Avenue.

As members of the state Highway Patrol and DOT continue their investigation into a fatal train-car collision Tuesday, the victim's husband is talking publicly for the first time about losing his wife and child.

A fatal crash involving an Amtrak train and a car in Efland occurred Tuesday morning.

The infant hurt Tuesday when the car her mother was driving collided with a train outside Efland is being treated at N.C. Memorial Hospital.

Orange County Story sdf Caption View Larger Map By Associated Press, NBC17, 2 hours, 47 minutes ago Updated: Dec.

In the past year, Norfolk Southern received 11 calls reporting problems with the railroad crossing where a young mother and her 5-year-old son were struck and killed by a train Tuesday.

Orange County Story sdf Caption By Marilyn Peguero, NBC17, 3 hours, 33 minutes ago Updated: Dec.

Workers in an office that overlooks the rail crossing where a mother and son died Tuesday in a car-train crash say the warning devices malfunction so frequently that they keep a Norfolk Southern railroad phone number on a sticky note.