FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2001
CONTACT: SID GAULDEN, 803-896-8755

ON SOUTH CAROLINA HIGHWAYS SEPTEMBER 28 - 30

COLUMBIA – The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces a preliminary number of seven people killed on South Carolina highways from Friday, September 28, at 6 p.m. until Sunday, September 30, at midnight.

Two teenagers died and two others were injured in a single vehicle collision early Sunday morning. The vehicle collided with a tree on Willis Pond Road in Barnwell County. No one in the vehicle was wearing a seat belt. Two other separate collisions with trees claimed two lives in Orangeburg and Berkeley Counties. Two people were killed in separate collisions in Aiken and Union Counties when the vehicles they were driving ran off the road and overturned. Of the seven people who died over the weekend, six were not wearing seat belts. One woman, who was wearing a seat belt, died when her vehicle was broadsided when she failed to yield the right of way on Blacks Highway in Chester County.

As of October 1, 739 people had died on South Carolina highways, compared to 805 last year at this time.

Editor’s note: These numbers are preliminary and are based on fatal collisions reported to the South Carolina Highway Patrol as of October 1, 2001.

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