Jeff Virgil Whitlock Jr. , 76, and Jarrett James Whitlock, 18, killed in rear-end collision with semi truck on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Two killed in crash on I-85, traffic backed up for miles, troopers say
Troopers said the two people in the Dodge pickup and the 52-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer got out of their vehicles. A second tractor-trailer then hit the Dodge pickup and the two people who got out, troopers said.
Names released of two killed in I-85 crash south of Spartanburg
Troopers say the Whitlocks and the driver of the big rig exited their vehicles. The driver of a second tractor trailer then hit the back of the Dodge truck, which then hit the first semi-truck.
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