A pedestrian died late Monday night after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Wake Forest Road in Raleigh, police said. Officers responded just before 10:30 p.m. to a reported pedestrian crash near Dresser Court, and the victim was taken to a local hospital, where they later died from their injuries.
According to a preliminary police investigation reported by CBS 17, the pedestrian was struck by a southbound Toyota Corolla while crossing Wake Forest Road outside of a crosswalk. Police said the Corolla's driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. As of Tuesday, no charges had been filed against the driver, and the crash investigation remained ongoing.
An earlier report from the same station had described a man hit by a vehicle near Wake Forest Road and Navaho Drive as believed to have non-life-threatening injuries. It is not clear from available reporting whether that earlier incident and the fatal crash near Dresser Court are the same event; the outlet's two reports describe different outcomes and slightly different locations, and that discrepancy has not been resolved in available coverage.
Raleigh Pedestrian Crash Analysis
The City of Raleigh has published a pedestrian crash analysis.
The analysis examines pedestrian-crash patterns and factors in Raleigh.
Fatalities Have Spiked in Recent Years
The timing of Monday night's crash lands against a backdrop of elevated pedestrian deaths across Raleigh. In 2022, the Raleigh Police Department handled 27 pedestrian fatalities within city limits, a total more than three times the annual average recorded since 2006, according to newsobserver.com. Counting two additional deaths on highways just outside city limits that year, 29 pedestrians were hit and killed in and around Raleigh in 2022.
Of those 29 fatalities, only seven occurred during daylight hours, with the rest happening after dark — a pattern that echoes in Monday night's late crash near Dresser Court. Other recent Raleigh pedestrian deaths have followed similar contours: a woman was killed after being struck by a car on I-440 westbound, according to ABC11, and police responded around 6:50 p.m. to a fatal pedestrian crash at Falls of Neuse Road and Quail Ridge Road, as reported by WRAL.
Wake Forest Road itself has been the site of fatal pedestrian crashes before. A pedestrian was struck by a 2007 Toyota on Wake Forest Road and later died at WakeMed.
As of the latest reporting, police had not identified the pedestrian killed Monday night, and no charges had been filed against the Toyota Corolla driver. The crash investigation remains ongoing, and it was not immediately clear whether that status would change as police continue working the case.
