New Bedford man dies in North Carolina car accident

On Sunday night around 7:30pm the North Carolina State Highway Patrol announced that a 33-year old New Bedford man was killed after his SUV slammed into a concrete bridge overpass on I-95 near Thomasville, N.C.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said that Jonathan Orander, 33, of New Bedford, was speeding over 100mph, left the road for unknown reasons before he struck the underpass pier, overturned a number of times before coming to a rest upright.

Orander was not wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident which is still being investigated.