Midlands man dies almost a week after being hit by car, coroner says
A South Carolina man was killed days after he was hit by a vehicle on a Midlands road, the Clarendon County Coroner’s Office said Sunday.
Late Saturday night, Tyone Bannister died at a hospital in Florence from injuries he suffered in the collision last Tuesday, Coroner Bucky Mock said in a news release.
The 39-year-old Summerton resident died of head and neck injuries and multiple blunt force trauma suffered in what Mock called an accident.
Bannister was walking south on Governor Richardson Road at about 7:45 p.m., when he was hit by a Hyundai Sonata traveling in the same direction, said Lance Cpl. Tyler Tidwell of the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
There was no word if the driver of the Hyundai stopped after the crash, if it was reported to emergency responders, or if any criminal charges are pending.
Bannister was airlifted to an area hospital where he later died, according to Tidwell.
Through Friday afternoon, 151 pedestrians were among the 908 people that have been killed on South Carolina roads in 2020, according to the Department of Public Safety. At this time last year, 146 pedestrians had died in collisions on South Carolina roads, DPS data shows.
This was at least the ninth person killed in an Clarendon County crash in 2020, and the second pedestrian, according to DPS.
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This story was originally published November 22, 2020 at 1:25 PM.
