WEST ASHLEY, SC – Injuries were reported and more than 100 people were left without power when a vehicle collided with a utility pole near Savannah Highway/US 17 and Markfield Drive, WCSC reports. Dominion Energy says the crash knocked out power in the area in the early morning hours of February 10, 2021. Power was…
Read moreMYRTLE BEACH, SC – A three-vehicle crash sent one person to the hospital on the evening of February 9, 2021. WBTW reports that the crash took place on US 501 close to Robert Grissom Parkway. Emergency responders took one person to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. No other information is available at…
Read moreCOLUMBIA, SC – A fire broke out at a Wendy’s restaurant near I-77 and Garners Ferry Road on the night of Sunday, February 8, 2021. WLTX reports that Columbia firefighters arrived on the scene at 6892 Garners Ferry Rd and quickly extinguished the blaze. Their subsequent investigation revealed that the fire had started in the building’s…
Read moreCHARLESTON CO., S.C. – Charleston Police responded to a collision on Highway 61 yesterday in which two people were injured, one seriously. WCSC reports that the two-vehicle collision occurred in the area of Highway 61 and Ashley Hall Road early on the morning of February 8, 2021. One of the drivers was pulled to safety…
Read moreNORTH CHARLESTON, SC – The South Carolina Highway Patrol responded to a collision on I-26 East at US 75/Ashley Phosphate Road this morning. WCSC reports that the collision occurred sometime before 7 a.m. on February 9, 2021, and blocked the left lane near Exit 209. The wreck was cleared by 7:20 a.m. No injuries have…
Read moreLITTLE RIVER, SC – One person was killed Monday morning after their vehicle crashed into a pond in a residential neighborhood, WBTW reports. Horry County Fire Rescue was called to the 3000 block of Fairway Drive shortly before 7:15 a.m. on February 8, 2021 to respond to the incident. A dive team was required to…
Read moreFLORENCE CO., SC – A contractor died at the McCall Farms Food Plant in Effingham on Sunday, February 7, 2021. WPDE reports that the man has been identified as 30-year-old Innovation Refrigeration Systems employee Ryan Seither, 30. Seither had been contracted to do unspecified work on the facility’s refrigeration system on Saturday night and Sunday…
Read moreDARLINGTON CO., SC – Firefighters in Darlington County responded to a housefire on Monday that was caused by an unspecified electrical problem, WPDE reports. Darlington County firefighters responded to a call on Black Creek Road on the morning of Saturday, February 6, 2021. They arrived to find smoke coming out of the house’s roof. They…
Read moreFLORENCE, SC – Two people were hospitalized Thursday following a six-vehicle pileup on US 76 near the Francis Marion University athletic fields, SC Now reports. The collision happened on the morning of February 4, 2021. The circumstances remain unclear, but we do know that it blocked the highway’s righthand eastbound lane for about 20 minutes.…
Read moreDARLINGTON CO, S.C. – A man died in a two-vehicle collision that took place west of the city of Darlington on Friday, February 5, 2021. WMBF reports that Bryson Gibson, a 24-year-old resident of Florence, was driving on Bethel Road near Highway 34 when he lost control of his 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer. Gibson overcorrected after the…
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