Update: Pedestrian, 17, who died while crossing road identified

A 17-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed in a Sumter accident, and a driver not wearing a seatbelt died after his car struck a tree in Lee County, the S.C. Highway Patrol said Sunday.

Sumter County Coroner Harvin Bullock identified the pedestrian Sunday as Terricia Butler.

According to the Highway Patrol, Butler was trying to cross U.S. 76 bypass in Sumter County Saturday night and was struck and killed by a 2006 Chevrolet pickup truck. The incident happened just north of downtown Sumter, on the bypass at Miller Road. In that area, U.S. 76 bypass is a four-lane highway.

The coroner said Butler was wearing dark clothes and crossing at a hazardous stretch of highway with a sign warning pedestrians not to attempt a crossing.

The pickup truck driver, whose name was not released, was unhurt and will not be charged, according to the patrol.

Meanwhile, in Lee County, the driver and only occupant of 2003 Mitsubishi Galant going north on Rembert Church Road was killed when the car ran off the road and struck a tree, the patrol spokesman said.

The driver was not wearing a seat belt, the spokesman said.

Lee County coroner Larry Logan on Sunday identified the driver as Akeem Daquan Pearson, 23, of Rembert.

Pearson was just a few miles from his Rembert home when the incident happened between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Saturday, Logan said.

The Lee County accident scene is in a rural area south of I-20.

This story was originally published September 6, 2015 at 9:24 AM.