Another driver killed as deadly stretch of days on Lexington County roads continues
One person was killed and two others were injured Wednesday in a crash, the South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
It was the most recent of multiple fatal wrecks in Lexington County in the past week.
The two-vehicle collision happened at about noon at the intersection of U.S. 378 and and Peachland Drive, according to Lance Cpl. Tyler Tidwell. That’s in the Gilbert area, near Lake Murray.
A 2022 Subaru Outback was driving west on U.S. 378 when it collided with a 2003 Lincoln Aviator that was heading north on Peachland Drive, Tidwell said.
Three people were injured in the crash, and they were taken to area hospitals, according to Tidwell.
The driver of the Lincoln was taken to Lexington Medical Center and later died, Tidwell said.
The Lexington County Coroner’s Office is expected to publicly identify the Lincoln driver after notifying the next of kin.
Tidwell said the driver and passenger in the Subaru were also hurt, but further information on their conditions was not available.
There was no word if any of the people involved in the wreck wore seat belts.
Information about what caused the collision was not available, but it continues to be investigated by the Highway Patrol.
This was the fourth fatal collision in Lexington County in a six-day stretch.
On Aug. 19, a 61-year-old woman was killed and two other people were hospitalized after a head-on collision happened at about 7:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Old Charleston Road, the coroner’s office said.
At about 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 19, a 28-year-old man died in a single-vehicle collision in the 100 block of Naomi Drive, according to the coroner’s office.
On Monday, one person died when an SUV ran off S.C. 302, near the intersection with Old Orangeburg Road where it went down an embankment, hit several trees and flipped over, Tidwell said.
Through Sunday, 650 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2022, according to the state Department of Public Safety. Last year, 1,194 people died in crashes in South Carolina, DPS reported.
At least 28 people have died in Lexington County crashes in 2022, DPS reported. Last year, 57 deaths were reported there, according to DPS data.
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