Driver killed after car is hit by two tractor trailers in Lexington County, cops say
One person was killed early Sunday morning after hitting two tractor trailers in separate crashes, South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
The collisions occurred shortly after 2 a.m. on a section of Interstate 26 running through Lexington County, Lance Cpl. Tyler Tidwell said.
A 2020 International truck was heading east on I-26, near mile marker 113, when a 2012 Buick LaCrosse ran into the back of the 18-wheeler, according to Tidwell.
The collision caused the Buick to spin around and flip multiple times before coming to a stop on I-26, Tidewell said.
The disabled car was then hit by another semi truck, Highway Patrol reported.
The driver of the Buick was not wearing a seat belt and died at the scene, Tidwell said.
The Lexington County Coroner’s Office will publicly identify the driver after notifying the next of kin.
The driver and passenger in the International tractor trailer, and the driver of the second semi truck, were all wearing seat belts and were not hurt in the wreck, according to Tidwell.
No other injuries were reported in the crashes that happened just outside of Cayce, about two miles from Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
The Buick driver was the fifth person killed in the past four days in a collision on a Lexington County road.
On Feb. 14, Barron Lorel Adams died in a crash on U.S. 321, Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a news release.
The 19-year-old Gaston man was not wearing a seat belt when his vehicle ran off the right side of the road and smashed into a utility pole, according to the release.
On Feb. 13, Pamela Adams Powell was killed in a wreck on Interstate 20, Fisher said.
A tree fell on her vehicle and the 49-year-old Columbia woman was taken to an area hospital where she died, the coroner’s office reported.
In an unrelated wreck on Feb. 13, two people were killed on I-26 when their SUV ran into the back of a box truck, Master Trooper David Jones said.
Fisher identified the crash victims as a couple, 78-year-old James G. Hoff and 75-year-old Terri Lee Hoff of Fenton, Missouri.
Prior to Sunday’s collision, 82 people have died on South Carolina roads in 2020, according to the Department of Public Safety. Of those deaths, 65 of the victims had access to seat belts, and 35 were not wearing safety restraints, DPS said.
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This story was originally published February 16, 2020 at 7:24 AM.
