Police identify man killed when car struck pedestrians on Holloway Street in Durham

Police identified a pedestrian killed on Holloway Street Sunday evening as 53-year-old Craig Day of Graham, N.C.

Officers responded around 6 p.m. after a 2015 Kia Optima struck two pedestrians in the 1400 block of Holloway Street east of downtown.

Emergency Medical Services crews treated one man at the scene, Durham police said in a news release.

Day was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died, the news release said.

The 31-year-old driver remained at the scene and cooperated with police, the release said. No charges had been announced as of Tuesday morning.

The crash remains under investigation and police are asking anyone with information to call Detective GL Munter at 919-560-4935 ext. 29448.

Buttigieg visited Holloway Street

In the five years ending in 2021, there were 46 crashes involving pedestrians along Holloway Street, resulting in three deaths and four serious injuries, The News & Observer previously reported.

In July, the US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg came to Holloway Street to see where $12 million in federal money will help build new sidewalks, crosswalks and bus shelters, The N&O reported. The city also plans to fill in more than a mile of missing sidewalks.

There are sidewalks where Sunday’s incident occurred, as well as a crosswalk about 50 feet from where the two men were crossing, but they were not in the crosswalk, a police spokesperson wrote in an email to The N&O on Tuesday.