Coroner identifies person killed in Richland County car accident
One person was killed in car accident in Lower Richland County Saturday, officials said.
Henry A. Higgins Jr., a 27-year-old from Hopkins, died following a crash near the 1900 block of Congaree Road east of Adams Haynes Road, according to the Richland County Coroner’s Office.
“We are working with the South Carolina Highway Patrol to fully investigate this accident,” Coroner Naida Rutherford said in a statement.
Further details of the crash were not immediately available. The South Carolina Highway Patrol could not be reached for comment.
Recent data shows that 346 people have died on South Carolina roads so far this year, according to the S.C. Department of Public Safety.
Alexa Jurado
The State