A woman was critically injured after a head-on crash this afternoon in Lenoir County.
The Highway Patrol says three vehicles were involved in the crash around 2:50 p.m. at U.S. 70 and Cobb Road, east of Kinston.
Trooper J.B. Locklear says a pickup truck with three people inside was westbound, and tried to make a left onto Cobb Road. He said the pickup didn't yield to an oncoming Ford Explorer and the two vehicles collided head-on.
The Explorer then spun around the struck a FedEx van that was at the stop sign on Cobb Road. Two women inside the SUV were injured, one of those in critical condition. A person in the pickup truck was also injured.
Locklear says the accident remains under investigation.
