Greensboro woman charged after moped crash on Spring Garden Street

A late-night U-turn on Spring Garden Street sent two people on a moped to the hospital with serious injuries and left Greensboro police charging a 24-year-old Graham woman with impaired driving. The crash unfolded on a busy city corridor near Eula Street, where officers, firefighters and paramedics rushed in after the collision.

Police say Makayla Kaitlynn Ouboun Theng was driving a Lexus SUV westbound on Spring Garden Street shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, June 14, 2026, when the SUV made a U-turn in front of a moped carrying a man and a woman. The maneuver led to the crash, according to Greensboro police, who identified the vehicle, the driver and the sequence of events in their charge announcement.

The two people on the moped were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Their names were not released, but local reports described them as a man and a woman riding together when the Lexus crossed their path. Greensboro officers, Greensboro Fire and Guilford County EMS all responded to Spring Garden Street near Eula Street as the scene was secured and the injured riders were transported for treatment.

Theng was charged with driving while impaired and failing to yield resulting in serious injury. Police described her as a woman from Graham, and the city’s release said the charges came after investigators pieced together the collision on the stretch of Spring Garden Street where the SUV and moped met. The case shows how quickly a late-night turn can turn dangerous when an impaired driver puts a smaller, less protected vehicle in harm’s way.

Spring Garden Street is one of Greensboro’s major corridors, linking downtown Greensboro with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro area and carrying heavy traffic through the city’s core. That mix of cars, scooters, mopeds and motorcycles leaves little room for error when a driver makes an abrupt turn or fails to yield, especially in the early morning hours when visibility is low and impairment can magnify every mistake.

The crash adds another serious injury case to the list of risks on city streets after dark, where vulnerable riders often bear the worst of a violent impact. In this case, police moved quickly enough to identify the driver, file charges and tie the collision to impaired driving and failure to yield, turning a single maneuver on Spring Garden Street into a criminal case with lasting consequences.