South Carolina Highway Patrol Continues Investigation Into Fatal Sunday Night Accident In Pickens County

(Seneca, SC)————The South Carolina Highway Patrol is continuing their investigation into a fatal crash that occurred in Pickens County Sunday night on Highway 183 near the intersection of Concord Church Road.

According to Lance Corporal David Jones of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, a BMW, driven by Jennifer Lynn Knox struck a 2014 Kia head on, which caused Knox and two six year old male passengers inside of Knox’s vehicle to be ejected from the vehicle. The two six year olds were transported from the scene and later died, according to the Highway Patrol. Knox was airlifted from the scene. 

Troopers Jones says that the vehicle that Knox was operating attempted to pass a vehicle pulling a boat and after striking the Kia head on, overturned and went down the road upside down and struck a culvert off of the right side of the road and overturned again.