FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2002
CONTACT: SID GAULDEN, 803-896-8755
FATALITY REPORT: DPS REPORTS NINE KILLED
ON SOUTH CAROLINA HIGHWAYS APRIL 12 - 14
COLUMBIA -- The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces a preliminary number of nine people killed on South Carolina highways from Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m. until Sunday, April 14, at midnight.
Five people died in separate single-vehicle collisions. In each of the five collisions the driver lost control of the vehicle and the vehicle overturned and/or struck a tree. Four people died in three separate two-vehicle collisions, one of which was a head-on collision in which both drivers were killed. Only one person killed was wearing a seat belt.
As of April 14, 264 people had died on South Carolina highways, compared to 274 last year at this time.
| Interstates | 1 |
| US routes, SC routes and secondary roads | 8 |
| Seat belt used | 1 |
| Seat belt not used | 7 |
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