Early on Sunday morning, July 3 two people riding a motorcycle in Anderson County were killed by a hit and run driver.

According to South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened at around 2.45 a.m. on State Highway 28 near State Highway 24 just west of Anderson.

Thirty five year old Jesse Gene Speer, of Anderson, was driving a 2005 Nissan Altima and he hit a Harley Davidson from behind, causing the motorcycle to crash. He then left the scene.

Both the rider and passenger, Bryan Donald Smith and his wife, Shannon Michelle, who were both aged 46, were ejected from the motorcycle and died at the scene. Neither of them was wearing a helmet at the time.

Speer was charged with two counts of felony DUI involving death and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving death. He was released on bail of $500,000.

In court, Speer apologized and said he had no idea he had hit anyone.

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On Friday, June 3, there was a single vehicle accident in Greenville following which two teenagers died.

According to state troopers, the accident happened on Tanner Road in Taylors. William Barksdale, aged 18, was driving a Nissan when he went off the right side of the road and then overcorrected. He went across the road and off the left side and hit a tree. Barksdale and a passenger, 17 year old Valentina Rojas were both entrapped in the car and neither was wearing a seat belt. A second passenger, Joseph Culbertson was wearing a seat belt and he managed to get out of the car and call 911.

Both Rojas and Barksdale were seriously injured and were taken to the Greenville memorial Trauma Center where Barksdale died on Sunday afternoon and Rojas on Sunday night.

Culbertson said the crash happened while he and his friends were on the way to his sister’s home for a graduation celebration.

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On Sunday afternoon, May 8, three family members from Greenville died in a head on collision in Pickens County.

According to authorities the accident happened at around 2 p.m. near the intersection of State 11 and West Gate Road. A Honda Pilot crossed the center line and collided with a Honda Civic head on. All three occupants of the Civic were wearing seat belts and had to be extricated from the car.

The three occupants of the Honda Pilot were taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital in serious condition. The driver was 16 and the two passengers were 13, Jones said. All three were wearing seat belts.

In the Honda Civic were 25 year old Megan Mullinax, 14 year old Kandice Broome, and 9 year old Furman Broome. They were all of Moody Street in Greenville and all died at the scene from blunt force trauma.

The accident is still under investigation.

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On Monday afternoon, April 4 a man was killed in a fatal wreck in Greenville County.

According to state troopers, the accident happened at around 3 p.m. at Geer Highway and Persimmon Ridge Road. David Joseph Davies aged 36 and of Seneca was driving a 2014 Toyota west on U.S. 276 when for reasons as yet unknown the vehicle left the road on the left side then drove off a four foot embankment, hit a tree and flipped.

Davies, who was wearing a seat belt was pronounced dead at the scene and was later identified by the Greenville County coroner’s office.

The highway was temporarily shut down to clear the scene of the accident and the investigation into why Davies’ vehicle left the road is ongoing including the results of toxicology.

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On Tuesday, March 1, a man was killed in a two vehicle wreck in Seneca.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, 66 year old Tommy Edward Roach, of the Utica community, was leaving Paw’s Diner on Clemson Boulevard together with his family shortly after 2 p.m. He was driving a 2003 Chevy Malibu. As he left the diner he pulled out in front of a 2010 Toyota Corolla being driven by 34 year old Nexsi Castillo of Newry. The Toyota hit the Chevy on the driver’s side.

Both Castillo and Roach were taken to Oconee Memorial Hospital where Castillo was treated and released but even though he was wearing a seatbelt, Roach died of his injuries due to blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen.

Roach’s family were also injured and taken to hospital but no information was available on their condition.

The accident remains under investigation.

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On Friday night, January 29 a man from Gray Court died in a motorcycle and car crash.

According to Simpsonville police, the accident happened at around 6.30 p.m. at 499 SE Main Street at the Loma Street intersection in front of an Auto Zone store in Simpsonville. There was a collision between a four door car being driven by 43 year old Marka Fuller of Simpsonville and a motorcycle being driven by 58 year old David Gibson of Gray Court.

Gibson died in the collision and Fuller has been charged with driving under the influence resulting in death, possession of schedule IV controlled substance and driving too fast for conditions.

Gibson was the Maintenance Director with Marchbanks Assisted Living of Anderson, South Carolina and was survived by his wife Rachel Ann Blount Gibson, three sons, three grandchildren and a great grandson.

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