On Thursday, May 14, a man from Ware Shoals died in a motorcycle accident.

According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened just after 6.30 a.m. on Thursday morning in Laurens County on State 101.

Jamal Amador Cloud, aged 43, of Dairy Street, was riding to his work at BMW in Greer on his 1999 Suzuki motorcycle when he collided with a Honda sedan on State 101 near Postell Hughes Drive. Cloud was thrown from the motorcycle and although he was wearing a helmet, he was pronounced dead at the scene of multiple blunt force trauma.

The driver of the car was not injured.

The accident is currently under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol and the coroner. It is not yet known whether any charges will be brought.

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On Sunday, March 15 a motorcycle accident in Greenville resulted in the death of a man.

According to authorities, the accident happened at around 8.30 p.m. on Sunday when 46 year old Michael Wayne Bagwell, of E. 8th Street in Greenville, was traveling on Rutherford Road on his motorcycle. He arrived at an intersection and then when another vehicle on Stallings Road turned in front of him during an active traffic light which was changing, Bagwell was thrown from his motorcycle into another stationary vehicle.

Bagwell was transported to Greenville Memorial Hospital where he was rushed into surgery but he died at around 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday night.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating the accident with the priority being to ascertain exactly what position the traffic light was in.

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On Wednesday, February 11, there was a six car wreck which left four people dead.

According to South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident happened around 11 p.m. on Interstate 85 near mile marker 67 in Spartanburg County. A driver was seen by a trooper going the wrong way at a high rate of speed in the northbound lanes of Interstate 85. The trooper notified dispatch and asked for assistance. A state transport police officer saw the same driver and flashed his lights and sounded his siren at the driver, but to no avail and shortly afterwards there was a massive collision involving six vehicles.

Four people from Spartanburg County were killed: Martha Marie Diaz, aged 21, of Tinsley Heights Drive; Josh Leroy Smith, aged 60, of Carver Mill Road and 22 year old Shiree Lynette Whitaker, of Pierpont Avenue Extension, all died at the scene. Edwin Ferguson, aged 27, of Fernwood Glendale Road, died at the hospital. Several other individuals were transported to Spartanburg Regional for their injuries.

It is known that one of the fatalities was the wrong way driver but not which one.

According to investigators it is thought drugs or alcohol may have been a factor in the incident and the results of toxicology are awaited.

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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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