Two Goldsboro men died after a pickup truck went off the road and crashed into a tree after traveling at a high rate of speed.

Pedro Daniel Ponce-Hernandez, 22, was driving south at around 2 a.m. Sunday morning on U.S. 13 near Brantwood Drive before the truck ran off the road, partially overturned and slammed into a tree, said 1st Sgt. K.W. Milligan, with the N.C. Highway Patrol in Wayne County.