South Carolina Highway Patrol Investigating Fatal Early Thursday Morning Accident In Anderson County

(Seneca, SC)——-The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal accident that occurred earlier this morning around 1:50am on I-85 between mile markers 12 and 13 in Anderson County, which is between Highway 187 and Highway 24. The accident involved a single vehicle. 

Trooper Joe Hovis of the Highway Patrol says that the deceased was driving a 2013 Dodge and was entrapped in the vehicle and was not restrained. 

Trooper Hovis says the vehicle was traveling north on I-85, entered the median, struck a culvert and went into the lake. 

The Anderson County Coroner’s Office has yet to release the name of the deceased.