The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is investigating the circumstances around a fatal crash that took place in northeastern Chatham County on Tuesday afternoon.
A release from the state agency on Wednesday said highway patrol troopers responded to a report of a crash along Manns Chapel Road at 1:08 p.m. on Tuesday — an area west of the Briar Chapel community in the Chapel Hill part of Chatham County.
Upon arrival, first responders found a man later identified as Daniel Louis Jagow dead on-scene. From initial inspections, according to the state highway patrol, Jagow crossed the center line of the road while traveling southwest in a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Once he traveled off the road to the left, the vehicle struck a tree and overturned near Blakes Drive. As of Wednesday, investigators are still uncertain to the exact timing of the crash and are working to determine an approximate time of death for Jagow. The Chapel Hill resident was 43 years old.
As the state highway patrol’s response continued in the afternoon, Manns Chapel Road was closed for around three hours before being reopened, according to Wednesday’s release. Troopers cleared the scene at 4:38 p.m.
Beyond the collision remaining under investigation, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said no further information is being made public at this time.
Featured photo via AP Photo/Skip Foreman.
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Chapel Hill Man Dead After Single-Car Crash on Manns Chapel RoadThe North Carolina State Highway Patrol is investigating the circumstances around a fatal crash that took place in northeastern Chatham County on Tuesday afternoon. A release from the state agency on Wednesday said highway patrol troopers responded to a report of a crash along Manns Chapel Road at 1:08 p.m. on Tuesday — an area […]
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To: Brighton McConnell. I saw the article titled ” Chapel Hill Man Dead After Single-Car Crash on Manns Chapel Road”. Today. I feel that it is very inappropriate and insensitive to print/distribute this story with the name, age, and victims place of residence before the police have completed there investigation and the family has been notified. This was my son and my family, friends, and everyone else was notified of his death at the same time that the Highway Patrol located me to make a notification to me that my son was dead. Unfortunately, It was to late for me to contact the rest of my family personally. I wonder how you would feel if this was the way you found out your Father, Mother, Brother, Sister died. SHITTY BUSINESS as far as I am concerned, but you got the scoop.
Paul Jagow, Chapel Hill, NC
Hi there Paul — firstly, let me say that I’m sorry for your loss. I can only imagine what getting that terrible call is like.
We published our story, like many other outlets, when the North Carolina Highway Patrol shared a release about the crash on Wednesday morning. Their release was in my inbox at 9:47 a.m., and our story went up at 10:10 a.m. Typically, NCSHP doesn’t share releases with media until family has been contacted, and of course they don’t share with us whether they’ve done that in each and every case. You have every right to be frustrated, but I hope you can understand we were simply sharing the information already publicly shared by NCSHP.