21-year-old motorcycle rider dies in overnight crash on I-77, SC coroner says
A South Carolina man was killed early Sunday morning when the motorcycle he was riding crashed on Interstate 77, according to the Lexington County Coroner’s Office.
Pablo Marcelo Caballero Molina, a 21-year-old Hopkins resident, died in what Coroner Margaret Fisher called an accident, in a Monday news release.
At about 2:35 a.m. Sunday, Molina was driving a motorcycle south on I-77, according to the release. At the 1-mile marker on I-77, which is the I-26 interchange, the motorcycle was traveling at a high rate of speed and crashed into a concrete barrier, Fisher said.
Molina, who was not wearing a helmet, was ejected from the motorcycle and died at the scene, the coroner’s office said.
No other injuries were reported in the crash that continues to be investigated by the coroner’s office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Through Sunday, 404 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2026, according to the state Department of Public Safety. A minimum of 914 people were killed in collisions in South Carolina in 2025, DPS data shows.
At least 15 people have died in Lexington County crashes this year, and 40 people died in wrecks there in 2025, according to DPS data.
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