Lexington County man killed in morning crash drowned, coroner says
One person was killed when a car ran off the roadway, traveled down an embankment and became submerged in a creek in Lexington County, troopers said.
The driver killed in the crash was identified as Nicolas Robert Fielding, in a news release from Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher. She called the wreck that occurred shortly before 7 a.m. an “accident,” in the news release.
The single-vehicle crash happened in the 2300 block of South Lake Drive, according to County of Lexington spokesman Harrison Cahill. That’s off Platt Springs Road, between the Red Bank and Edmund areas.
The vehicle was traveling east on S.C. 6, also known as South Lake Drive, when the car went off the right side of the roadway, according to Lance Cpl. David Jones of the S.C. Highway Patrol. The car continued down an embankment, where it was submerged in a creek.
The 23-year-old Gaston resident was not wearing a seat belt and was entrapped in the vehicle, Fisher said in the news release. Jones said Fielding had to be extricated from the vehicle.
He was taken “to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead,” according to the news release.
After an autopsy, drowning was determined to be Fielding’s cause of death, Fisher said in the news release.
The crash remains under investigation by the highway patrol.
This was the second deadly crash in Lexington County in less than 24 hours. A Lexington man died Tuesday afternoon when his car was hit as he crossed an intersection in the Gilbert area.
This story was originally published April 10, 2019 at 10:38 AM.
