CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The driver involved in a deadly crash Friday morning in northeast Charlotte has been charged with DWI, police said.
Officers were called just before 2 a.m. to North Tryon Street at Austin Drive and found a Dodge Challenger had crashed and flipped on its roof.
Police determined that the driver, Benjamin James Graves, was speeding when he lost control and drove off the road. The car hit a fence and tree and then rotated into a telephone pole coming to a rest on its roof on Austin Drive, investigators said.
Woody Williams lives nearby and told Channel 9 he heard the crash.
"I heard the car as it went by. It was going very fast and I heard like multiple crashes at the end of the street," Williams said.
The passenger inside the car was killed. The name hasn't been released.
Graves was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. DWI task force officers responded to Carolinas Medical Center where they charged Graves.
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