9:00 a.m. Tuesday
Greenville County coroner Mike Ellis says Jermaine Dudley Cureton died at the scene of the accident on Pine Drive in Piedmont Monday night. Ellis says Cureton lived in the neighborhood. Witnesses tell the coroner’s office Cureton left his residence and was walking a friend home who lives in the neighborhood Cureton was hit and killed. Ellis says Cureton died of blunt force injuries of head and chest.
Monday
Troopers said a man who was hit and killed Monday night in Greenville County stepped into the path of a Jeep. The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. Monday night on Pine Drive in Piedmont. Investigators said the Jeep was headed north on Pine Drive when the man walked into the roadway and was struck. The coroner pronounced the man dead at the scene but has not released his name.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol continues to investigate and said he driver did stop after the accident.
The highway patrol is investigating the crash.
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