A car struck a home at 300 McMaster Street in Chapel Hill around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, and police are searching for the driver, CBS 17 reported. The vehicle remained at the scene. No injuries were reported, and the people inside the house were safe, according to the station.
WRAL also reported the early-morning crash. The cause, the extent of damage and the driver’s whereabouts remain unclear in the available accounts.
The legal rule is not a finding about this crash
North Carolina law requires a driver who knows or reasonably should know that a crash caused property damage to stop at the scene immediately, according to the state statute. That general requirement does not establish what the driver knew or whether any offense occurred in the McMaster Street case.
A separate Durham incident
Vehicle-into-home crashes have also been reported elsewhere in the Triangle, though individual incidents do not establish a wider trend. In a separate Durham case on May 7, 2026, a vehicle went through a fence and struck a home’s basement in the 2000 block of University Drive, CBS 17 reported. That crash differed in location and circumstances from the McMaster Street collision.
