Ex-trooper, woman killed in motorcycle crash weren’t wearing helmets, SC coroner says
One of two people killed Friday night in a Lexington County motorcycle crash was identified as a former state police officer, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety said.
The wreck involved a vehicle that collided with a motorcycle, killing both people on board — Melvin Clyde Horton Jr. and Heidi Joy Goots — Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a news release.
Capt. Roger Hughes said Horton was a state trooper in the Lexington County area, WACH reported. The 54-year-old Cayce resident served the South Carolina Department of Public Safety from 1989-2005, according to WLTX.
Horton and Goots, a 55-year-old Columbia resident, were killed when a vehicle turned left onto Charleston Highway and hit their motorcycle, Fisher said in a news release.
Neither Horton nor Goots was wearing a helmet and both were pronounced dead on scene, according to the coroner’s news release.
The driver of the other vehicle was taken to an area hospital with “non-life-threatening injuries,” Fisher said.
The deadly crash is being investigated by the Cayce Department of Public Safety, which asked for prayers for Horton and Goots, as well as their families.
This story was originally published June 30, 2019 at 2:44 PM with the headline "Ex-trooper, woman killed in motorcycle crash weren’t wearing helmets, SC coroner says."
