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Date:
Monday, January 27, 2014Area:
Columbia, SCTwo firefighters were injured Tuesday night when they crashed on their way to the scene of an accident, according to Fire Chief Charlie King.
King said that at approximately 10:20 pm, two Oconee County Emergency Services firefighters were in a personal vehicle on their way to the scene of an accident in the Friendship Community when their vehicle crashed.
King said one firefighter was transported to Greenville Memorial Hospital and admitted. The other firefighter was treated on the scene for minor injuries.
Date:
Wednesday, January 22, 2014Area:
Columbia, SCAuthorities say three people have died in a wreck caused by a 28-year-old woman who was drinking on her birthday and drove the wrong way on Interstate 77 in Fairfield County.
Investigators said Takeya Taylor, of Columbia, was driving the wrong way around 2:30 a.m. Thursday in the southbound lanes of I-77 about five miles from Winnsboro when she hit another vehicle head on.
The coroner's office said Taylor was killed, along with the driver of the other car, 48-year-old Lisa Jefferson, and one of her passengers, 46-year-old Wallace Green. A second passenger in the car remains in the hospital.
Date:
Friday, June 28, 2013Area:
Columbia, SC