Investigators said 24-year-old Jocelynn Morrison in a 2007 Honda Accord and 25-year-old Jada Ballen in a Chevy Malibu were racing along Centennial Parkway near Lake Wheeler Road when they crashed.
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Witnesses told police they saw both cars speeding down the road and weaving in and out of traffic at around 2:15 a.m.
Morrison lost control and sideswiped Ballen, both cars careened off the road. Morrison's car slid all the way across the Lake Wheeler Road intersection, hit a tree, spun around and hit another tree before coming to a stop.
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Morrison was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Ballen was arrested on felony charges of serious injury by vehicle.
This is the second Raleigh street racing incident involving a crash that ABC11 has reported on in the last month.
On March 7, Raleigh police confirmed street racing was blamed in a deadly crash on Atlantic Ave around 4:20 a.m. A mother and her daughter were seriously injured in the crash after their SUV was hit head-on. One of the drivers who police said was street racing died.
Driver killed in Atlantic Ave crash was street racing, police say
A week later, on Tuesday, March 14 RPD arrested the second driver involved in the street racing incident. Manuel Antonio Cerrone, 30, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, felony hit-and-run causing serious injury or death, and misdemeanor death by vehicle.
Driver connected to deadly street racing incident that also injured mom, her daughter arrested: RPD
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