At the end of May, several people were hurt in a major crash involving 10 vehicles and including a gasoline tanker in Lexington County.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened shortly before 6 a.m. on the Interstate 26 between exits 106 and 104. Those are the exits to St. Andrews Road and Piney Grove Road.

It appears that a Richland County deputy had stopped to help with a crash on the highway when his vehicle was hit by another. He was uninjured but there was then a secondary crash involving several other vehicles in the eastbound lane, including two tractor trailers and the tanker, which was carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel. The tanker then caught fire which spread to some other vehicles and then onto the west side of the interstate toward Jamil Road. Firefighters also had to extinguish flames which were threatening a nearby residential area.

Department of Health and Environmental Control officials attended the scene to check out a suspicious substance leaking from one of the tractor trailers and the Department of Transportation arrived on scene to inspect the highway for damage.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

On Wednesday April 15, there was an accident between two cars and an 18 wheeler.

According to Greenville Police, the accident happened shortly after 6 p.m. on Memorial Drive near Millbrook Street in front of the Camelot Inn. Johnnie Flowers was driving a Pontiac with three passengers northbound in the center turn lane before making the left turn into the Inn. Flowers crossed the southbound lanes, hit a Ford vehicle and then collided with an 18 wheeler.

Following the collision the tractor trailer was pushed into a utility pole which meant that the power lines were knocked down and causing Memorial to be closed to traffic for nearly three hours.

Flowers and his front-seat passenger were trapped in the vehicle and had to be extricated by Greenville Fire-Rescue. He suffered minor injuries along with another passenger whereas the front seat passenger was seriously injured. They were all taken to Vidant Medical Center.

Following the investigation, Flowers has now been charged with driving while impaired and unsafe movement.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

Early on Wednesday 25 March a Greenville County school bus was involved in an accident.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol the accident happened just after 6.15 a.m. at Crestwood Road near Highway 291 when a truck from the Pepsi-Cola plant on State Park Road hit the school bus. There were three students on the bus at the time. It appears that a couple arrived at the scene in another vehicle and left having taken one of the children on the bus with them.

Greenville County School District said that no one was injured but two ambulances were called to the scene but left without taking any one to hospital.

The bus was damaged and had to be towed from the scene which took over an hour causing delays to traffic in the area.

There is no information as to how the accident happened and who was at fault or whether any charges will be filed. The investigation is ongoing.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

Winter weather is continuing to cause problems for drivers around the region.

On Tuesday, February 23, Highway Patrol troopers said that there have been at least 1,700 accidents across North Carolina; 24 in Pitt, 35, in Lenoir and 20 in Craven counties and they warned people to stay off the roads.

In Greenville, a number of accidents were reported as snow continued to accumulate across the city.

On Memorial Drive, just north of Country Club Road a driver traveling north, lost control of their Toyota and crossed into the southbound lanes. They then slammed into a Greenville EMS truck headed back to its station. Fortunately, there were no injuries in the incident. A citation was issued to the driver of the Toyota.

Weather was to blame for many more accidents with cars sliding off the road and, in some cases, hitting head on with another.

In Onslow County accident 32 year old Amber Barraclough was travelling on Harris Creek Road when she lost control of her car. She slid across the road, crossed the center line, and hit a tree. She was transported to Onslow Memorial where she died and a front seat passenger was treated for non life threatening injuries.

Finally two Charlotte police officers managed to escape injury after a tractor trailer clipped another car, causing it to crash into the police cruiser.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

On Sunday there was a fatal crash in Greenville County.

According to the Highway Patrol, the accident happened around 8 p.m. near Fork Shoals Road in the Pelzer area. It appears that the wreck involved at least three different vehicles, and one of the vehicles, being driven by 69 year old William Donald Gentry of Piedmont, was hit by a tractor trailer in a head on collision. Gentry then hit an SUV, and he was ejected from his vehicle. The Greenville County Coroner said that Gentry was not wearing a seat belt, and after he was ejected another vehicle ran over him. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy has been scheduled.

The collision is still under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the South Carolina Transport Police and the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

On Wednesday morning three firefighters were taken to the hospital after their fire truck crashed when it rolled off an icy mountain road when responding to a crash Wednesday morning in Henderson County.

According to officials, the accident happened around 8 a.m. at Carriage Park which is a private community off of Carriage Park Way. The weather conditions were both icy and foggy and the fire engine was responding to a vehicle accident and was on a very steep road which was also icy. It slid off the road and rolled down an embankment. Witnesses said that the fog was so bad visibility was extremely limited at the time.

The truck was a 2004 American LaFrance Metropolitan Pumper/Tanker with a 1500 gallons per minute pump and 1000 gallon tank.

Three of the firefighters were taken to the hospital and at this time there is no news on the extent of their injuries.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

Early on Friday morning a Greenville woman was killed in a weather related accident.

According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened early in the morning on the Interstate 40 in Pender Country near the Duplin County line, at mile marker 388. It appears that 19 year old Mindy Burnett was heading westbound on the Interstate at the same time as a Pepsi tractor trailer. The Pepsi semi slowed down as it approached a patch of ice, but Burnett was unable to slow and her vehicle began to spin and hit the tractor trailer.

Burnett was pronounced dead at the scene and a one year old infant in her car was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington to be treated for injuries. The Pepsi driver was uninjured.

The investigation is still ongoing.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

On Monday a Poplar Bluff man sustained moderate injuries in an accident involving his tractor trailer.

According to South Carolina Highway Patrol the crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday, December 29 when 58 year old James C. Hancock was driving eastbound in a 2010 Freightliner on Route E, five miles east of Greenville.

The Highway Patrol went onto say that it appears that Hancock’s vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway. Hancock then reportedly over corrected which led to him running off the left side of the roadway. His rig struck several vehicles as he was moving from one side of the road to the other and in addition it also smashed into a building.

The Emergency Services transported him by ambulance to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center where his current condition is not yet known.

The investigation is ongoing but so far there are no further details apart from the fact that he was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.

A pedestrian was killed in an accident on Tuesday morning in Oconee County.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened around 6 a.m. in front of the Bountyland Quick Stop convenience store on US 76, or Clemson Boulevard, at Davis Creek Road.

Franklin G. Hester, aged 76, of Seneca, had left his house to go to an urgent care facility. While on the way there, his car broke down, and Hester parked the car in the convenience store parking lot, called his family for help and then walked across the highway to the Paws Diner for coffee and to get out of the cold.

As he crossed from the diner back to his car he was hit by a white 2014 Freightliner box truck which was heading west. He died at the scene from blunt force trauma.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the driver of the truck was 24 year old Kelvin Powell of Greenville. No charges have been filed and it appears the death has been ruled an accident.

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On Friday, a crash between a pickup truck and a tractor trailer has left one person dead in Spartanburg County.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol the accident happened at 11.30 p.m. on Interstate 85 near the 77 mile marker.

According to troopers, the driver of the pickup truck was trying to take the exit at 77 and overshot the exit resulting in him hitting the rear of a tractor trailer that was parked on the shoulder of the highway.

Troopers went on to say that the driver of the pickup was pronounced dead at the scene and at this time his identity has not yet been released. The driver of the tractor trailer was uninjured and his name is also not known.

The accident is still under investigation by the troopers and no charges have been filed at this time.

If you have been the victim of an accident, contact our law offices immediately at (864) 280-7660 today or contact us online. We will be able to review your case especially in the case that said accident resulted in serious injury or death, you may be entitled to monetary compensation.