Deadly 3-car crash on Bluff Road being investigated

A three-car crash Friday evening on Bluff Road in Richland County killed a 20-year-old man and injured three other people.

The crash happened just before 6 p.m. Friday when one vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic in the opposite lane, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.

When that vehicle collided with an oncoming vehicle, the second vehicle then hit a third vehicle, state troopers say.

The driver of the vehicle that crossed into the wrong lane was pronounced dead at the scene, troopers say. He was identified Saturday as 20-year-old Howard Victor Henderson III of Hopkins, according to Richland County Coroner Gary Watts.

Henderson was not wearing a seatbelt and died of blunt trauma of the neck, Watts said.

The driver and passenger of one of the other vehicles were taken to a local hospital with serious injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the highway patrol. The driver of the third vehicle also had minor injuries.

The crash happened in the 5700 block of Bluff Road, Watts said, near the intersection with Lower Richland Boulevard.

This story was originally published January 6, 2018 at 8:55 AM with the headline "Deadly 3-car crash on Bluff Road being investigated."