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Saturday, January 4, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCOne person was killed in a car accident on I-77 Sunday night, according to a release from the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
The wreck happened on I-77 northbound near the 28-mile marker, just south of Catawba Avenue.
Witnesses told officials that a 2007 Buick Lucerne was driving at a high rate of speed when the driver attempted to pass another vehicle on the left shoulder. The vehicle then lost control, came back onto the interstate and struck the guardrail on the right side of the interstate before becoming airborne and went down an embankment.
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Thursday, January 2, 2014An honor guard from Fort Bragg en route to Charlotte Friday morning was involved in a major crash near Laurinburg, the Highway Patrol confirmed Friday afternoon.
According to a Highway Patrol spokesman John, two were air-lifted to Chapel Hill in critical condition and the other eight were taken to Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg.
Three of those kept in Laurinburg were in critical but stable condition and one was in serious but stable condition.
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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.
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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 Greenville woman was hit and killed on Wade Hampton Boulevard late Wednesday night, authorities said.
Angela Bright, 55, of 2413 Wade Hampton Blvd., died of blunt force trauma about 30 minutes after she was hit, said Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans.
Bright was attempting to cross the road at 2420 Wade Hampton Blvd. when she was hit in the northbound lane by a 1982 Honda at 8:45 p.m., said a state trooper.
She was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital where she died, he said.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A woman has died after being hit by two vehicles, according to the Greenville County coroner.
Troopers said the incident happened on White Horse Road at Old White Horse Road at 2:18 a.m.
Adrian S. Smith, 27, died at the scene from blunt force trauma to the chest.
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Monday, December 30, 2013Area:
Charlotte, NCAn 18-wheeler hit and killed a little boy as he rode a dirt bike his parents gave him for Christmas.
Seven-year-old Tristan Mericle died after a tractor-trailer struck him Tuesday evening.
Troopers and say the seven-year-old was riding a dirt bike in his front yard and drove onto Highway 97, right into the path of the big rig, as he tried to turn the bike around.
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Monday, December 30, 2013Area:
Charleston, SCNorth Charleston police have arrested and charged 25-year-old Kevin Larone Ivery in connection with the death of 71-year-old Barbara Ann Wisdom, a nun from New York.
According to police, Wisdom was struck by Ivery’s car at the corner of Dorchester and Ashley Phosphate Road.
Ivery, of Peppercorn Lane, has a long history with breaking the law. In Monday's night's incident, he is charged as a habitual offender and driving under suspension. His bond was set at $50,000 on Tuesday. Additional charges may be added after the investigation is complete.
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Monday, December 30, 2013The Cherokee County Coroner said a 50-year-old Union woman was killed in a single vehicle collision near Gaffney on New Years Eve.
Fowler identified the victim as Ruth Ann Allman Magner of 167 Magner Drive.
"Mrs. Magner was traveling south on South Carolina Highway 18 when she lost control of the 2008 Chevrolet Colorado pick-up truck she was driving at 8:08 p.m Tuesday near the intersection of Dawkins Road. The truck ran off the right side of the roadway, down an embankment and struck a tree on the driver's side. Mrs. Magner was pronounced dead at the scene," Fowler said.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013A husband and wife are dead after a three-vehicle accident near Simpsonville Monday night, according to the Highway Patrol and Greenville County Coroner’s Office.
Leanna Carolina Turner, 23, and her husband Samad Fard Muhammad Turner, 30, were killed after their vehicle collided with a pick-up truck head-on on Fairview Road around 10:40 p.m.
Samad Turner was the driver, and Leanna Turner was the passenger in the 2008 Nissan. Both were wearing seatbelts, according to the Greenville County Coroner.