Senior Citizen Charged in Serious Accident

An 87 year-old man from Westminster has been charged by the South Carolina Highway Patrol with failure to yield after a Tuesday afternoon accident not long before 3:00 pm at the intersection of Highway 28 and Halfway Branch Road. According to reports from the Highway Patrol, William Duvall’s 2001 Ford van collided with a 1996 Honda motorcycle being operated by Anthony Wiley, age 20 of Walhalla. Wiley had to be airlifted to Prisma Health in Greenville to be treated for what were described as “serious” and “traumatic internal injuries.”