One person is dead and three people hospitalized after authorities say a intoxicated driver went the wrong way on Interstate 26 in Spartanburg County causing a head-on collision.
The wreck happened at 5:30 Saturday morning in the eastbound lane around mile marker 1 on Interstate 26. Lance Cpl. Jeff Gaskins with the South Carolina Highway Patrol says that 33-year old Traci Freeman, of Boiling Springs, was driving a 1999 Chevrolet minivan westbound in the eastbound lane when she struck a 1998 Toyota four-door sedan occupied by four people head-on. Freeman was charged with felony driving under the influence result in death and felony driving under the influence resulting great bodily injury, and remains in the Spartanburg County Detention Center on a $50,000.00 bond.
Gaskins says that the driver of the sedan, 40-year old Katherine Lanier, of Union, a front seat passenger, identified by Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger as Janice Carol Williams, of Pacolet, and a juvenile sitting in the left rear seat all had to be transported by ambulance to Spartanburg Regional Hospital. A fourth passenger, an unidentified juvenile, sitting in the right rear seat had to be airlifted to Spartanburg Regional Hospital. A spokesperson for Spartanburg Regional says that Lanier has been treated and released.
Clevenger says that the Williams died at 6:33 Saturday morning at the hospital. Freeman was also transported by ambulance to Spartanburg Regional Hospital where she has been treated and released.
Freeman was charged with felony driving under the influence result in death and felony driving under the influence resulting great bodily injury. She is currently at the Spartanburg County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.
Gaskins says that all of the people except the deceased victim were wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision.
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