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  • Three weekend vehicle fatalities in Fairfield

    WINNSBORO – Three separate vehicle incidents took the lives of three women on Saturday in Fairfield County.

    Barbara Jean Brown, a pedestrian, died after she was struck by a Jeep Cherokee at the intersection of South Garden Street and Palmer Street in Winnsboro about 10 minutes before midnight on Friday, July 13. Brown was transported to Palmetto Health Richland Hospital where she later succumbed to her injuries at approximately 1:41 a.m. on Saturday, July 14.

    The accident remains under investigation by the Fairfield County Coroner’s Office and the Winnsboro Department of Public Safety.

    Mary Hackle, a front seat passenger in a 2012 Nissan Altma Sedan died following a single vehicle accident that occurred about 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 14

    The vehicle was traveling north on Landis Road when it traveled off the left side of the roadway where it struck a ditch and overturned. The driver and Hackle were taken to the hospital where Hackle later died.

    Later that same day, about 7:30 p.m., Tyana Lanishia Hood, died in a single car accident on Old River Road near US-21 approximately nine miles east of Winnsboro.

    The 2015 Chevy Cruze which Hood was driving exited the left side of the roadway and struck a tree. Hood and a passenger in the vehicle were taken to the hospital where Hood died from her injuries.

    Both accidents are being investigated by the Fairfield County Coroner’s office and the S.C. Highway Patrol.

  • Blythewood woman, 20, killed in crash

    COLUMBIA – A 20-year-old Blythewood woman was killed in a crash on I-26 near the Piney Grove exit in Columbia early Sunday morning, just after midnight.

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    Sydney Jordan Burnsed, a 2016 graduate of Blythewood High School, died at the scene due to injuries sustained in the collision.  Burnsed’s vehicle was traveling in the left lane of the eastbound lanes of I-26 when it struck a 1997 Toyota sedan that had been disabled by a prior accident, according to Cpl. Sonny Collins of the S.C. Highway Patrol.

    The Toyota was disabled in the left lane of travel after hitting the median a short time before the second crash, Collins said.

    “There were no first responders on scene yet from the original collision,” when the second crash occurred, Collins reported.

    The S.C. Highway Patrol is investigating the collision.

    Burnsed, grew up in Blythewood where she lettered in softball at BHS, played softball for several travel teams and was a youth leader at NewSpring Church in Columbia. She was a sophomore at Midlands Technical College, pursuing a nursing degree at the time of her death. See Burnsed’s obituary.

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  • Winnsboro Man Killed in Weekend Car Crash

    A Winnsboro man was killed last weekend when his 2001 Jeep Cherokee crashed off Highway 269 in the early morning hours of Dec. 23.

    Fairfield County Coroner Barkley Ramsey said 21-year-old Stephen Roof, of Old Roof Road in Winnsboro, died at approximately 3 a.m. Dec. 23 from injuries sustained in the one-car accident. The wreckage, however, was not discovered until 7:15 a.m., according to the S.C. Highway Patrol. The Highway Patrol said Roof was traveling east on 269 when the Jeep ran off the left side of the road and overturned several times. Ramsey said the Jeep left approximately 460-feet of skid marks on the roadway leading up to the curve where Roof left the road, 1.6 miles south of Winnsboro. Ramsey said once the Jeep left the road, it continued out across a nearby field, flipping several times before it finally came to rest some 400 feet from the main road. Roof had been visiting friends in Columbia earlier that evening and was not expected home that night, Ramsey said. That, and the distance from the main road of the wreck, account for the delay in discovering the accident, he said.

    The Highway Patrol said Roof was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, which remains under investigation. Ramsey said that speed appears to be a factor in the fatal crash.