An 18-year-old died after a car accident in north Charlotte on Tuesday evening.

Police said Kiara Wright, a senior at North Mecklenburg High School, turned in front of a pickup truck just after 6 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Browne and DeArmon roads. The front of the truck struck the driver’s side door of Wright’s car, investigators said.Wright’s brother, 21-year-old Cameron Lamont Brown, and 19-year-old Xavier Donte Joplin were also in the car and were injured in the crash. Both Joplin and Brown are listed as 2010 graduates of North Mecklenburg High School.

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