Teen killed, another person hurt in overnight crash on Midlands road, coroner says
A teenager was killed and another person was hospitalized following an overnight crash on a Midlands road, the Kershaw County Coroner’s Office said.
The single-vehicle collision happened at about 9:30 p.m. on Lakeshore Road, near the intersection with John G. Richards Road, said Lance Cpl. Tyler Tidwell, of the South Carolina Highway Patrol. That’s near Lake Wateree in Camden.
Travis E. Elkins was identified as the person who was killed, according to Coroner David West. Elkins, a 19-year-old from Pope Valley, California, died at the scene, West said.
Elkins was a passenger in a 2012 Chevrolet Cruze that was heading west on Lakeshore Road when it ran off the right side of the road and flipped over before smashing into a tree, Tidwell said.
The driver got out, and pulled Elkins from the wreck, but the teen was not breathing, according to West. The driver then called 911, and Kershaw County Fire Service along with EMS responded to the crash, West said.
The driver of the Chevy was hurt and taken to a Prisma Health hospital in Richland County, according to Tidwell.
Further information on the driver’s condition was not available.
Both the driver and passenger were wearing seat belts, Tidwell said.
Information on what caused the Chevy to veer off the road was not available, but the wreck remains under investigation by Highway Patrol.
Through Friday afternoon, 811 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2020, according to the Department of Public Safety. This was at least the 15th person killed in a Kershaw County crash in 2020, according to DPS.
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This story was originally published October 25, 2020 at 11:27 AM.
