Coroner ID’s Pedestrian Struck in Easley Friday Night

Friday night around 11:30pm the South Carolina Highway Patrol and the Pickens County Coroner’s Office responded to the 4000 block of Calhoun Memorial Highway in Easley where a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle.

Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley said 66 year-old Douglas Casey of Marietta, SC was walking in the highway when he was hit by a vehicle. He died at the scene from blunt force trauma, according to Kelley, who added that the South Carolina Highway Patrol is leading the investigation.