23-year-old killed in car crash near Columbia airport, Lexington County coroner says
A Midlands man was killed and another person was hospitalized after a car crash Sunday near Columbia Metropolitan Airport, the Lexington County Coroner’s Office said.
The single-vehicle collision occurred at 5:15 p.m. on the Columbia Airport Expressway in West Columbia, according to Lance Cpl. Tyler Tidwell of the South Carolina Highway Patrol. That is the road leading to the airport’s entrance, previously named the John Hardee Expressway.
Alexander R. Jeffcoat was the person killed in the wreck, Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a news release.
The 23-year-old Lexington man was driving a 2008 Infinity G35 when it ran off the road to the right and flipped as it crashed, according to Tidwell.
Jeffcoat was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle as it overturned, Tidwell said.
He died at the scene, according to Fisher.
The passenger in the car was wearing a seat belt, the coroner said.
After freeing themselves from the wreck, that person was taken to an area hospital, according to Tidwell. Fisher said the injuries are considered minor.
Information on what led up to the collision was not available, but it remains under investigation by Highway Patrol.
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