2 from NC killed in SC weekend crashes in York, Lancaster counties, troopers say
Two people from North Carolina were killed over the weekend in unrelated crashes in South Carolina, officials said.
In a single-vehicle wreck around 10 p.m. Friday night in York County, William Bradley, 68, of Gastonia, N.C., died, according to York County Coroner Sabrina Gast.
The SUV Bradley was driving went off S.C. 49 near Campbell Road between York and Lake Wylie and hit a tree before catching fire, according to Gast and S.C. Highway Patrol Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway.
Bradley died at the scene of the crash, officials said.
Sunday crash in Lancaster a fatality
A person from Charlotte died in a two-vehicle crash Sunday around 6 p.m. on U.S. 521 in the panhandle of Lancaster County south of the North Carolina state line, Ridgeway said.
That 52-year-old driver who died has not been publicly identified by Lancaster County Coroner Karla Knight-Deese. The driver died at a hospital in Union County, N.C., officials said.
In the Lancaster crash, the vehicle operated by the driver who died collided with an SUV that was stopped at a traffic light, Ridgeway said.
The driver of the SUV was not hurt, Ridgeway said.
Both crashes remain under investigation by the S.C. Department of Public Safety.
