Motorcycle rider thrown under vehicle while trying to avoid a crash, SC coroner says
A 36-year-old motorcycle rider died after he was thrown under a vehicle in South Carolina, officials said.
The man was traveling through Anderson County when he tried to avoid a crash. He “appears to have laid his bike down and was thrown under the vehicle resulting in the vehicle running over the victim,” according to the Anderson County coroner’s office.
The man was rushed to a medical center, where he died of crash-related injuries on Monday, Jan. 9. He was identified as Austin Andrew Dalantinow of Honea Path, roughly 35 miles south of Greenville.
The crash was reported at about 6 p.m. in the Honea Path area. Dalantinow had been riding near the intersection of East Greer and Black streets, the coroner’s office wrote in a news release.
The 36-year-old reportedly “died as a result of multiple traumatic injuries secondary to blunt force trauma.”
As of about 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, the coroner’s office said it continued to investigate the crash in conjunction with the Honea Path Police Department. Officials didn’t share the type of vehicle involved in the incident in the news release.
