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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