A driver is dead and a passenger was hospitalized after a pickup truck left New Harrison Bridge Road in Greenville County and struck trees. Separately, WSPA reported a 2023 crash near New Harrison Bridge Road and Richardson Road in Simpsonville. The crashes occurred nearly three years apart.
According to WYFF 4, citing the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened at 10:11 p.m. Tuesday on New Harrison Bridge Road. That report says a driver and passenger were traveling west in a 2004 Ford F-150 when the pickup traveled off the right side of the road and hit several trees. A separate account from wspa.com describes a separate, single-vehicle crash in 2023, Saturday night near New Harrison Bridge Road at Richardson Road, saying a 2016 Ford was traveling west when it went off the roadway, hit an embankment and then struck a tree.
WYFF 4's report states that the Greenville County Coroner had not released the driver's name. In its account of the separate 2023 crash, Wspa.com identifies the driver as 45-year-old Kenneth Antonio Walker of Fountain Inn.
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Per the WYFF 4 account, a passenger in the pickup was injured with non-life-threatening injuries and was transported by EMS to a hospital. Wspa.com's account of the separate 2023 crash describes it as single-vehicle and does not mention a passenger. Wspa.com reports that the driver was pronounced dead at the scene, according to troopers.
WSPA's report adds that an external examination of the driver was scheduled for Sunday. The 2023 case remained under investigation.
