A woman died Friday night after her car crashed into an apartment building at the Church Hill apartment complex on June Lane in Florence, leaving a child with two broken legs and another person hospitalized. The impact appeared to cause structural damage to the building, and one apartment was roped off with yellow caution tape in the aftermath.
Florence County Coroner Keith von Lutcken confirmed the woman's death, according to WPDE. Several City of Florence police officers responded to the scene, and the outlet reports that Florence police are now investigating the crash. Information about what led the driver to hit the building was not immediately available, per the same report.
Housing Authority Sends Representatives to Scene
Representatives from the Housing Authority of Florence, which owns the apartment complex, also came to the scene Friday night, the station's report notes. The agency manages a substantial footprint of public housing across the city — according to the Housing Authority of Florence, it owns and manages approximately 1,039 public housing units in total.
The extent of the damage to the specific unit hit by the car has not been detailed beyond the caution tape placed around it, and the condition of the hospitalized survivor beyond remaining under care was not disclosed in available reporting.
Separate Redevelopment Plan on the Books
Church Hill Apartments has separately been slated for demolition and rebuilding by the Florence Housing Authority, according to a report from SCNow. It is not established whether that redevelopment plan is connected in any way to Friday's crash or the structural damage it caused.
Crashes resulting in death or serious injury in Florence typically fall under the police department's Fatal Accident Investigation Team, which the City of Florence Police Department describes as responsible for conducting at-scene and follow-up investigations of motor vehicle crashes resulting in death or serious physical injury. No further details about the cause of Friday's crash, including the driver's identity or what led the vehicle to strike the building, had been released as of the latest reporting.
