Woman Dies, Man Injured in Mt. Pleasant Truck and Car Crash
A Myrtle Beach man and woman were traveling north in the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 17 when they collided head-on with a semi heading in the opposite direction. Charleston truck accident attorneys read in the Charleston County Deputy Coroner. Both the woman and the man were transported to the Medical University of South Carolina, where the woman died and the man received treatment to serious injuries sustained from the accident.
The car was struck by the tractor trailer around 2 a.m. after the pair had left the Kangaroo at the intersection of Highways 17 and 41 in the northern part of Mt. Pleasant. The couple were approached by a police officer after, allegedly, being parked at the said location for more than an hour. When confronted the man said the two were working things out. Not long after the car left the gas station, nearly striking the officer, and screeched its tires as is pulled into the southbound lanes of Highway 17, heading north.
This incident sparks the question as to why this couple were so eager to leave the Kangaroo when the officer came up to thier vehicle, especially because according to the State Law Enforcement Division the man driving the car has no criminal history. The tractor-trailor driver that was involved in the accident did not incur any injuries. The crash left U.S. 17 closed for five hours.
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