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Darryl Leaphart, 51, dead after his SUV strikes a pole in Lexington, South Carolina

Date: 
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
The driver, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene early Sunday morning.

John Wesson, 41, dead after being tossed off of motorcycle on I-26 in Calhoun County, SC

Date: 
Monday, September 1, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
Though the man was wearing a helmet and transported to Palmetto Richland Hospital, he died of his injuries the next day.

Jerry P. Hull, 55, dead after being thrown from motorcycle near Elgin, SC

Date: 
Monday, September 1, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
Hull's bike veered off the road, hit a sign, and flipped several time. Hull himself was unfortunately not wearing a helmet.

Tammy Brown, 45, charged with DUI after fatal crash in Clarendon County, South Carolina

Date: 
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
A Manning woman who was involved in a fatal crash Saturday night was charged with felony DUI, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The driver of the vehicle, 34-year-old Maurelio Deleon, died and a passenger was transported to a hospital. The passenger's condition is not known. Tammy Brown was first taken to the hospital, then to the Clarendon County Detention Center on two counts felony DUI and for transporting an alcohol container with the seal broken.

Benjamin Elliot Owens, 17, killed in crash in Columbia, South Carolina

Date: 
Friday, August 29, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
Driver Benjamin Elliott Owens disregarded a stop sign and a collision occurred. He was pronounced dead at the scene due to trauma associated with the crash. A 17-year-old passenger and the 55-year-old driver of the car he hit were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The collision remains under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

One dead, 17-year-old and 55-year-old hospitalized after crash in Richland county, SC

Date: 
Friday, August 29, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
The driver who was killed neglected to stop at a stop sign, injuring a passenger and driver of another car.

Pedestrian Thomas Jay Elston, 23, struck and killed by semi-trailer truck in Lee County, South Carolina

Date: 
Friday, August 29, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC
The highway patrol is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash, which occurred at mile marker 122. The driver of the truck was not injured.

Jason Wood, 32, died in a motorcycle-vs.-vehicle collision on Interstate 126 in Richland County, South Carolina

Date: 
Monday, June 9, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC

Two people seriously injured, transported to hospital, after their sewage truck leaves the U.S. Highway 378 E roadway near Sumter, and crashes into a tree.

Date: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC

A man driving a vacuum sewage truck, along with his passenger, was hospitalized this morning after his truck hit a tree alongside U.S. Highway 378 E, just two miles from Highway 261.

Sgt. 1st Class John Jackson, U.S. Army Central plans noncommissioned officer in charge and Coolville, Ohio native, witnessed the accident as he was returning from an appointment at Fort Jackson at 9:30 a.m., and wasted no time providing first aid to the wounded driver and passenger, who lost his right leg below the knee in one vehicle accident.

50 people injured, 8 taken to hospital, after two tour buses collide, trying to avoid debris on I-20, near Camden in Kershaw County.

Date: 
Friday, March 28, 2014
Area: 
Columbia, SC

Two charter buses carrying a total of nearly 100 people collided this morning on I-20 in Kershaw County, just past White Pond Road.

As many as 50 people were hurt, eight of whom were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, in the crash that happened around 9 a.m. not far from today’s Carolina Cup in Camden. Lane blockage is expected to severely impact traffic to that event for some time.

According to troopers, one of the buses swerved to avoid a couch that was in the road. The second bus also moved to avoid the object, but ran into the back of the first bus.