Raleigh Man Seriously Injured After Car Collapses on Him

Just after midnight Thursday, Raleigh police arrived at Six Forks Station Apartments near Olde Station Drive to find a man pinned under a car. He was seriously injured after being pinned under a car, and Raleigh police said they arrived just after midnight to the scene at Six Forks Station Apartments near Olde Station Drive. The man was transported to a hospital, where he remained Thursday morning with serious injuries. The circumstances that caused the vehicle to collapse were not immediately released.

No name or age for the victim was provided by authorities, and no charges had been announced as of Thursday morning. Whether the incident is being investigated as an accident or a criminal matter also had not been disclosed.

The Six Forks Station complex, a 321-unit community in North Raleigh with access to I-540 and I-440, sits in a densely residential stretch where apartment parking lots see frequent use by residents. The specific parking area or structure where the collapse occurred was not detailed in the initial police response.

The incident at Six Forks Station was one of two separate vehicle-related injuries in Wake County this week. On Friday, March 6, a Wake County deputy was struck by a car at a gas station on Jones Sausage Road in Garner. The Wake County Sheriff's Office said the deputy was struck at a gas station in the 4000 block of Jones Sausage Road near Garner after being called to help deal with a "subject trespassing." During the encounter, the deputy deployed pepper spray, and the suspect then entered a vehicle and backed it into the deputy, striking him, the sheriff's office said. Hester then drove onto Jones Sausage Road and collided with a truck.

Deputies charged Tevin Maurice Hester, 30, with one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, one count of resisting public officer causing serious injury, one count of felony flee to elude arrest with a motor vehicle, two counts of habitual misdemeanor assault, and a number of other related offenses. The deputy was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and Hester was also taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

Raleigh police and the Wake County Sheriff's Office are each handling separate portions of the investigation into the Garner incident. The Raleigh Police Department is investigating the vehicle crash portion of the incident, while the Wake County Sheriff's Office continues handling the underlying arrest. The case involving the Six Forks Station man remains in early stages, with Raleigh police yet to release further details on the victim's condition or the cause of the collapse.