A pedestrian has died after being struck by a pickup truck on a Spartanburg County road Thursday night, according to authorities. The crash happened around 7:17 p.m. on Campground Road near Knightsridge Road, leaving the pedestrian with injuries that proved fatal and the pedestrian’s identity still unreleased as of the latest reports.
According to WSPA, the pedestrian was walking in the east lane of Campground Road when she was struck by a 2004 Dodge pickup. The pedestrian was taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, where the pedestrian later died from the injuries. The pickup driver was not injured, the station reported. The FOX Carolina News report on the crash similarly noted that troopers say the pedestrian was walking in the eastbound lane of Campground Road when the pickup hit the pedestrian, and that the pedestrian died at the hospital.
As of the most recent reporting, the Spartanburg County Coroner's Office had not released the pedestrian's identity. FOX Carolina has said it plans to provide further information as it becomes available, and no additional details about the driver, potential charges, or the circumstances leading up to the crash have been made public.
A County Already Leading the State in Fatal Crashes
The Campground Road crash lands in a county that has struggled with road safety for years. Spartanburg County ranked first among South Carolina's 46 counties for fatal motor-vehicle collisions in 2023, recording 84 deaths out of more than 11,000 total collisions, according to a report from The Northwestern. Thirteen pedestrians were killed and 11 more sustained serious injuries in county collisions that year, the same report found.
Timing echoes what happened on Campground Road Thursday evening. The county's highest number of fatal collisions in 2023 occurred between 6:01 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., with 20 fatal crashes recorded during that window, per the same report. Statewide, nighttime conditions were involved in 87% of fatal pedestrian crashes between 2019 and 2023, according to a factsheet from the South Carolina Department of Transportation, which lists pedestrians as one of 13 primary emphasis areas in the state's 2025-2029 Strategic Highway Safety Plan.
Statewide Numbers Offer Little Comfort
South Carolina averaged roughly 1,209 pedestrian-involved crashes a year from 2019 through 2023, with an annual average of 184 fatal and 205 serious-injury pedestrian crashes, the SCDOT factsheet shows. Fatal pedestrian crashes rose over that span even as serious-injury crashes slightly declined, the agency noted.
More recent statewide figures suggest mixed progress. South Carolina recorded 1,038 traffic deaths in 2024, a rate of 18.9 per 100,000 residents that ranked fourth-highest in the nation, according to The State. Fatal crashes statewide fell 9% that year, reaching their lowest level in at least seven years, the newspaper reported. The same report said pedestrian deaths declined from 118 to 115 in 2026 year to date compared with the same point in 2025.
Spartanburg County has seen other pedestrian deaths on its roads in recent memory. A separate crash left a pedestrian dead after he was struck by an SUV while attempting to cross U.S. Highway 176 near Commerce Point Boulevard, according to a report carried by Yahoo News. Another pedestrian death was reported near the intersection of Asheville Highway and North Pine Street in Spartanburg, according to WYFF4.
No further details about Thursday's crash, including the driver's identity or whether any charges are being considered, have been released. The investigation into the Campground Road crash remains active, and officials have not said when the pedestrian's name will be made public.
