On Wednesday morning, an Upstate high school student died following a single vehicle crash in Greenville County.

According to officials, the accident happened around 7.30 when 17 year old Jordan Thomas Skyler Powell, was driving to school in a 2000 Honda Civic. He was proceeding south on Highway 11 near Dill Road when the car ran off the right shoulder and he then over corrected, crossed the center line and went off the left side of the road. He then ran into a wooded area about five miles south of Landrum and crashed into several trees.

Police say Skyler, a junior at Landrum High School, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene and according to the coroner’s office the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.

The accident is still under investigation.

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According to the Greenville County Coroner’s Office a Honea Path woman died early on Tuesday morning in a single vehicle crash near her home.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol said that the accident happened at around 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday when 50 year old Deborah O. Bumgardner, who lived on Latimer Ridge Road, was traveling west on the same road in a pickup truck. She was alone in the vehicle. For reasons as yet unknown, she drove off the right side of the road and crashed into a large tree.

She was not wearing a seat belt and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner’s office later confirmed that the cause of death was blunt force trauma. They also said the death was accidental.

The investigation is ongoing and toxicology results are awaited.

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On Saturday morning there was a fatal accident and troopers believe the victim was a hit and run driver.

According to Greenville Police, the first incident happened shortly before7 a.m. on Saturday morning at the intersection of Greenville Boulevard and East 10th Street. A dark colored Honda car rear ended a white Toyota truck and did not stop but carried on down the Boulevard towards the Pitt County Fairgrounds. The driver of the Toyota truck was not injured.

At that point, what is thought to be the same vehicle had a second accident a couple of minutes later, near the intersection of U.S. 264 Alternate and Old Pactolus Highway. The driver of the Honda died of his injuries.

Police are continuing to investigate both incidents, but at this time they believe that the first hit and run driver and the fatality in the second accident are one and the same person, as yet unidentified.

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On Sunday night a Greenville Police Office was involved in a head on collision.

According to the police, the accident happened on Sunday night at around 8.15 p.m. when Police Officer Jennifer Freeman was hit while traveling south on Sweitzer Street by a 2011 Ford F150, driven by 25 year old Brent Obringer, who was traveling northbound, but drifted onto her side of the road. Obringer hit Freeman’s patrol vehicle, and she was transported to Wayne HealthCare by Greenville Rescue with non life threatening injuries.

She was later released from hospital on the same day, suffering from bumps and bruises.

Obringer refused treatment, and was arrested at the scene of the accident for operating a vehicle while impaired.

The road was closed for a little less than an hour and the crash is currently under investigation by the Darke County Sheriff’s Office.

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On Friday a Simpsonville man died following a chase involving South Carolina Highway Patrol.

According to authorities, the crash happened just after midnight on Friday at the intersection of Rutherford Road and Pleasantburg Drive. A vehicle did not stop at a traffic safety checkpoint on Highway 124 near Woodside Avenue when troopers tried to pull it over. A chase then ensued which ended when the trooper’s cruiser crashed into the vehicle.

Taylor Miller, aged 22, of Wild Rice Drive who was a passenger in the vehicle was rushed to the trauma center at Greenville Memorial Hospital where he died at 5.30 p.m. on Friday.

There is no information on the driver of the vehicle who was arrested.

There is now an ongoing investigation into the incident and South Carolina Highway Patrol was unable to provide more information until the investigation has reached a conclusion.

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On Monday afternoon, a Greenville man was seriously injured having been hit by a vehicle.

According to Montcalm County Sheriff’s office, the incident took place shortly before 2.30 p.m. on Sheridan Road near Pakes Road. Stanton resident, 72 year old Albert Ferrier was allegedly traveling north on Sheridan Road and left the roadway. His vehicle then struck 27 year old Joseph Pruitt of Greenville, who was riding his bicycle southbound on the east shoulder of Sheridan Road.

Ferrier did not stop at the crash scene and continued northbound while Pruitt was taken to Sheridan Community Hospital and then flown to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids where he was said to be in serious condition, although that was later upgraded to good condition.

Authorities went on to say that a witness followed the suspect’s vehicle and was able to obtain a vehicle description and the registration plate and State Troopers were informed.

Ferrier was then arrested at his home by sheriff’s deputies and charged with operating while intoxicated resulting in serious injury and leaving the scene of an injury accident. He was later arraigned and jailed.

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A man has been charged with attempted murder having shot his 4 year old son.

According to Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened on Monday evening on Lacy Lane, when 21 year old Travis Blake Carlton shot his son in the chest. It appears there had been an argument between Carlton and the child’s mother which then turned violent and Carlton used a semi automatic hand gun to fire several rounds at both mother and child. The mother then ran to her car to take the boy to hospital but crashed the vehicle on Saluda Dam Road just before 8 p.m.

Deputies went on to say that both mother and the boy are at Greenville Memorial Hospital where the mother is being treated for injuries from the car accident and child for a gunshot wound. Both are expected to survive.

Meanwhile Carlton is being held in the Pickens County Detention Facility and is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, child abuse with great bodily injury and criminal domestic violence.

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An accident on Sunday in Edgecombe County left four people dead and another seriously injured.

According to the Highway Patrol the accident happened just before noon on NC 42 east of Pinetops.

Alan Thompson, aged 30, of Greenville, was driving a Toyota sedan east when he crossed the center line and hit a 2011 Mazda sedan, which was traveling in the opposite direction, head on. The Mazda was being driven by 53 year old Randy Collins, of Elm City.

Troopers went on to say that Thompson and his passengers Mickeyla Little, aged 15, of Greenville, and 2 year old Christian Thompson, of Greenville were killed.  A passenger in the Mazda, 45 year old Stephanie Collins, of Elm City, was also killed. Randy Collins was airlifted to Vidant Medical Center.

Troopers say the accident is still under investigation but that they think speed was a factor.

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