Thursday 9:52 a.m. Update
The Pickens County Coroner reports Theodore Raymond Blanton, 83, of Liberty was killed in Wednesday’s crash.
Blanton died at Greenville Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead just after 6:00pm. An autopsy will be conducted Thursday.
The coroner says Blanton was wearing a seat belt as he drove the four-door Buick on Wednesday.
Reporting by Fred Cunningham
One person is dead after a two car collision on Highway 178 in Pickens County.
The accident occurred at 3:50 pm Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Highway 178 and Odell Road, about 5 miles south of the town of Pickens.
Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne of the South Carolina Highway Patrol said that a 2001 Nissan four-door sedan driven by 35-year old Jennafer Baker, of Liberty, was traveling west on Highway 178 when a 1999 Buick four door sedan attempted to make a left turn off of Odell Road onto Highway 178. Rhyne said that Baker’s vehicle struck the sedan in the drivers side door and caused the driver, identified by Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley as 83-year old Theodore Raymond Blanton, of Liberty, and a passenger, 82-year old Norma Blanton, also of Liberty, to become trapped inside the vehicle.
The Blanton's were both wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident and had to be extricated from the vehicle, according to Rhyne. They were both transported by ambulance to Greenville Memorial Hospital, where Theodore Blanton later died from injuries sustained in the accident.
Baker was wearing a seatbelt and was not injured.
The accident remains under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
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