A car ran into the front yard of a home near NoDa, police say. The driver is dead.

A man died early Sunday morning in Charlotte after his Ford Mustang ran into a tractor-trailer on The Plaza, a few blocks from East Sugar Creek Road.

Richard Andrew Brandon Cox, 30, was driving on the Plaza around 1 a.m. when his Mustang hit the truck, kept moving and drove into the front yard of a home on The Plaza, where it hit a tree and a parked car, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

Cox was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police believe he was not wearing a seatbelt.

The tractor-trailer driver stayed at the scene and was interviewed by detectives. Police determined he was sober at the time of the crash.

This story was originally published August 5, 2018 at 5:02 PM.