Why curry was in the road. Many of you are getting ready to head out on your morning drive and channel 9 is learning some of you may be more at risk for crashes than others. This month alone there have been a half dozen crashes from gilead to sanford road in huntersville. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno is live along that road to show us some of the issues theyre s. Highway patrol troopers tell channel 9 that there isnt much they can do because of the i77 toll lane construction and the placement of the safety barriers. Now, according to Highway Patrol, i77 is, quote, a mess of a road. So far this year, there were 228 crashes on the stretch through charlotte. 240 in february and 162 crashes in march already. Troopers we spoke with say there isnt much they can do because of the construction. According to Highway Patrol, the barriers make matters worse. There is no way to move wrecks parts of i77 resulting in long backups to an already congested inter. Prior to the construction startin
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Construction zone so far, so good. Were looking at your drive times in the area. If youre coming down, yesterday, we saw an hour coming down from mooresville into huntersville. Right now. Currently. It is just nine minutes from 150 heading down towards sam furr at 65 miles an hour. As issues come up, well update you on channel 9 and twitter. Follow me this morning at traffic team nine. I77 is becoming really a constant headache for drivers who not only have to deal with toll construction but also a growing number of crashes. We tell you about the crashes on a regular basis they are happening between gilead and sam furr in mecklenburg county. Weve investigated the efforts to keep everyone safe . The problem is they cant move some of them because of the channel 9 learned there have been more than 600 crashes on i77 in 2016. There were 228 crashes on the stretch through charlotte, 40 in february, and 162 crashes in march already. That is double the amount of crashes on i85. According to t
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Brody this is mcneeley avenue, we have a crew there live on the scene. Were told apparently when firefighters got on scene they saw smoke coming from this house but from this live look you can tell no sign of flames, they are extremely close to the home indicating that there might not be any Severe Threat at the moment from any flames. Looks like they got it under control what may have happened but they have the caution tape up around the home, earlier we saw two to three fire trucking outs, noword on what caused this smoke or fire here, also no word on any injuries at this point. Iredell county communications have been helpful filling us in on the scene there and apparently this started an hour and a half ago athourandahalf ago. Back to you. Christine 6 02 right now. Police are searching for a man south charlotte this morning. It happened around 4 30 a. M. At the kangaroo express on park road at woodlawn. A man with a knife or screwdriver went in the store and stole an unknown amount