On Monday a Greenville man was killed and two children were injured.

According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the accident happened shortly before 1 a.m. when 37 year old Scott R. Hartman from Greenville was driving a 2008 four door Saturn westbound on Interstate 40.

For some reason, the car went off the side of the highway then hit the guardrail and went down an embankment, becoming airborne over Big Creek Road.

The car landed the right way up between I 40 and the 447 ramp. Hartman, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected in the crash and killed.

Also in the vehicle were two children, 5 year old Riley Hartman and 4 year old Mason Hartman. Neither of them was secured in child restraint devices and Riley was also ejected from the vehicle.

Both children were taken to hospital although the extent of their injuries is unknown.

Tests will be carried out on Hartman to ascertain whether drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash.

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A head on collision on Cowpen Landing Road on Monday afternoon left five victims seriously injured.

According to authorities, a Suzuki was travelling around a sharp curve on Cowpen Landing Road when it collided with a Dodge Neon, which had entered from its driveway.

The driver of the Suzuki, Ryan Johnson, was taken to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville where he is currently said to be in fair condition. His passenger, another male, was also taken to hospital along with the driver of the Neon, Eric Lovett and his female passenger.

No further information is available on those injured. A Vidant public information representative said that Lovett was not listed in that hospital’s directory but the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) allows patients admitted to hospitals to have their names excluded from public release.
In addition the police have not released any further information, including the names, due to the serious nature of the injuries.

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A man from Simpsonville has been killed in a four wheeling accident.

According to the Greenville County Coroner, 32 year old Chad A. Grimes was found near 139 Mustang Circle, off Bethel Road on Thursday morning which was less than a mile from his home.

It appears that he was riding a 2014 Cam Am when he failed to negotiate a curve, left the road and hit several trees and a rock.

He was not found until almost twelve hours later, as early Thursday morning a passerby saw the wreckage of the ATV and called 911. Troopers, fire units and an Emergency Medical Team responded and they then found the body.

An autopsy revealed that Grimes died at the scene just before midnight on Wednesday night of blunt force trauma.

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There was a fatal accident in Onslow County on Saturday night.

According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, it was around 7 p.m. when two cars collided three miles Northwest of Jacksonville, at the intersection of Pony Farm Road and U.S. 258 at a stop light. The vehicles were a 1995 Chevy truck driven by 16 year old Alex Vaughan and a 1997 Honda Civic driven by Matthew Nuckles, aged 24.

Following the crash, four passengers in the Civic were taken to Onslow Memorial Hospital with injuries after the crash. However, 50 year old Thomas Franklin Nuckles Junior died, due to the injuries he received in the crash. Police said that he was not wearing a seatbelt. Two of the passengers in the back seat who were also unrestrained, suffered internal injuries and a broken leg.

The driver and passenger in the Chevy were uninjured.

The investigation into the accident is ongoing to try and discover who was responsible. The results have been delayed as there are conflicting stories from the witnesses to the incident as to which driver had right of way at the time of the collision.

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A farm tractor accident on Sunday afternoon in Klackle Orchards left several people with minor injuries.

According to Montcalm County Sheriff’s office the accident happened on Station Road near West County Line Road at around 4 p.m. Klackle Orchards offers wagon rides to pick apples and pumpkins every day from the Saturday after Labor Day through Halloween. On one of these trips a tractor was towing two wagons with 25 to 30 people on each westbound on Station Road, when the first wagon began to sway.

The 71 year old tractor driver then lost control and went into the ditch which caused the first wagon to tip over. According to Klackle Orchards, he is a longtime and valuable employee.

Three men and two women ranging in age from 19 to 51 years old had minor cuts and abrasions and went to Spectrum Health United Hospital in Greenville for treatment.

The remaining uninjured passengers removed the second wagon out of the road and meanwhile the accident remains under investigation.

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Raleigh Police Department has confirmed that a Greenville has died having been hit by a car in Raleigh on Friday night.

Raleigh Police announced on Saturday, that 17 year old Camisha Renay Valerie Vines had died following an accident which happened just before 7 p.m. near the intersection of Capital Boulevard and Calvary Drive.  They said that he crash is still under investigation and no charges have been filed at this time.

It appears that Vines was trying to cross the street when she was hit by the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle, Sheila Johnson, stopped and did not flee the scene. She said that it was dark and she did not see her.

According to police, Johnson had right of way and the lights were green when she hit Vines.

This is the second pedestrian accident at the intersection of Capital Boulevard and Calvary Drive in about a month and a half. Edward Dean Trice, 50, was seriously hurt in September.

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An accident just outside of Anderson led to the death of a teenager and the injury of another on Saturday night.

According to South Carolina Highway Patrol, John Henry Horton IV of Manning was driving a 2003 Chevrolet pickup about one and a half miles north of Anderson when he and a 22-year-old man driving a 1995 Buick collided at U.S. 76 and Clemson Boulevard. Horton’s vehicle then overturned, and he was partially ejected.

Anderson County Coroner said that Horton, a student at Laurence Manning Academy, died at the scene and a 17 year old Sumter boy, who was a passenger in his vehicle, was treated at AmMed in Anderson and released.

The boys were driving back from the Clemson-North Carolina State football game and Horton’s father was a few cars behind when the accident happened.

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A crash in Lenoir Country on Wednesday night leaves two people dead.

According to the Highway Patrol the two vehicle accident happened just before 5 p.m. west of Kinston on U.S. 70. They said that 80 year old Tharen Taylor, of Deep Run, pulled out of the Bojangles’ parking lot near Skinner’s Bypass in a Honda, when her vehicle was hit by a pick-up truck.

Both Tharen and her husband, John Taylor, aged 83, who was a passenger in the car, were killed.

Another passenger in their vehicle, 84 year old Hazel Smith of Deep Run, who is Tharen Taylor’s sister, was flown to Vidant Medical Center where she is said to be in stable condition.

Troopers said the driver of the pick-up truck, whose name has not yet been released, was alert and talking after the wreck. He was taken to Lenoir Memorial Hospital and is not thought to be facing any charges.

Highway Patrol says that there have been 35 accidents in that area over the past two years although this is the first fatality.

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According to the Greenville County Coroner’s Office a man died after being hit by a car on Monday night,

Coroner Parks Evans said that the incident happened just before 10 p.m. on Wade Hampton Boulevard near Batesview Drive near the IHOP.

Officer Johnathan Bragg of the Greenville Police Department said a driver of a black Toyota Avalon was involved in the accident. He went on to say that the driver was cooperating with police in the investigation.

The victim was 46-year-old Jeffrey Daniel Wilson, of Moore, who was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital where he died of the injuries he received in the accident. The actual cause of death is still pending.

The Greenville Police Department is also investigating the incident, and emergency crews brought in an accident reconstruction team to review the collision. The 700 block of Wade Hampton Boulevard was closed to northbound traffic while the investigation took place.

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According to Greenville police on Wednesday, the driver of the car that hit a pedestrian remains in jail on a charge of felonious assault.

A male pedestrian, 37 year old Ben Jones, was hit by a car on East Fourth Street, in what Greenville police are investigating as a possible domestic dispute, and was taken to a Miami Valley Hospital with leg injuries, and the driver who hit him was taken to jail after being taken to Wayne Healthcare.

James Edward Stewart, 35, is in the Darke County Jail on no bond and is awaiting a court date for arraignment, whilst there is no news on the condition of Ben Jones.

Police say they have determined through their investigation that Stewart deliberately, and with the intention of causing serious bodily harm, struck the victim. Greenville police said that he was speeding when he ran a stop sign at Locust and Fourth, hit Jones and smashed into a parked car.

An accident reconstruction team was called to the scene.

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