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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A mother has been charged with driving under the influence after her two young children were killed in a car crash, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Troopers said Melissa Patton, 32, is charged with two counts of felony driving under the influence and driving under suspension.
According to troopers, Patton was driving a car at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday on Wells Highway when the car traveled off the road, hit a church sign and overturned.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A man has died after he lost control of his car in Greenville County Wednesday morning, according to South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers.
The wreck happened at 4:45 a.m. on Fork Shoals Road near McKelvey Road, troopers said.
The Greenville County coroner identified the man as 27-year-old Aaron Robert Carlberg of Simpsonville.
The coroner said Carlberg was not wearing his seat belt when his car left the roadway and went up an embankment before hitting several trees. The vehicle overturned and Carlberg was partially ejected.