No charges for driver who fatally struck Marblehead native in NC

North Carolina police said the driver who fatally struck a Marblehead native Oct. 3 will not be charged in the crash.Pamela Lane, 57, was hit by a car while cycling in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Oct. 3. Lane was a Marblehead High School graduate and the longtime owner of the Marblehead Sports Shop. She also was a real estate agent in Marblehead.Lane was travelling south on a sidewalk along the northbound side of a Chapel Hill road when she was hit, according to a report in The Durham News. Although North Carolina law requires cyclists to ride in the road with traffic, the town’s local rules allow cyclists to use the sidewalk where Lane was hit to get from a nearby greenway to a street crossing, the paper reported.Chapel Hill Police spokesman Lt. Josh Mecimore told the newspaper that a driver leaving a local gas station had stopped in the driveway and was waiting for northbound traffic to pass. Lane tried to cross in front of the driver and was hit, police said.Lane split her time between Chapel Hill, where her fiance and his family live, and Marblehead, where her parents, two daughters and two of her siblings reside.