Coroner identifies truck driver killed after running off Midlands road
One person was killed when a pickup truck crashed after running off a Midlands road Monday night, South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
The single-vehicle collision happened at about 10:15 p.m. on U.S. 76 in Newberry County, near the intersection with Riser Road, Cpl. Matt Southern said. That’s about 10 miles north of downtown Newberry.
Jacob Cordell Adams was identified as the man who died, according to Newberry County Coroner Laura Kneece. An autopsy is scheduled this week for the 38-year-old Newberry resident, the coroner’s office said.
Adams was driving a 1991 Ford pickup truck west on U.S. 76 when it ran off the right side of the road and hit a ditch before smashing into a fence and several trees, according to Southern.
Adams, who was not wearing a seat belt and was entrapped in the truck, died, Southern said.
Adams was the only person in the truck, and no other injuries were reported, according to Southern.
Information on what caused the truck to veer off the road was not available.
The wreck remains under investigation by Highway Patrol and the coroner’s office.
Through Monday afternoon, 751 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2020, according to the Department of Public Safety. Of those, 509 of the victims had access to seat belts, but 266 were not wearing them, DPS reported.
This was at least the 11th person killed in a Newberry County crash in 2020, and in eight of those deaths no seat belt was used, according to DPS.
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This story was originally published October 6, 2020 at 7:12 AM.
