State troopers are looking at whether black ice caused a deadly accident early this morning in Craven County.

Andrew Zaytoun of Bridgeton died in the single vehicle accident on Antioch Road shortly after 2:00 a.m.

Troopers say the 23-year-old man's car was traveling north and veered off the road and struck a tree.

Police say a second North Carolina driver has died in a weather-related traffic accident.

Trooper Stephanie Young of the North Carolina Highway Patrol told The Daily Southerner of Tarboro that 45-year-old Lonnie Nobles Madry of Tarboro was killed Wednesday. The wreck happened when his car hit an icy patch and skidded into a tractor-trailer on North Carolina Route 97 in Edgecombe County.

Another driver died Tuesday in Granville County when his vehicle
skidded off a road and hit a tree.