LANDRUM HIGH STUDENT KILLED IN WRECK DRIVING TO SCHOOL IN SOUTH CAROLINA. HE LOST CONTROL ROUNDING A CURVE AND WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT.
Posted: Jan 21, 2015
8:01 AM EST Updated: Jan 21, 2015 12:06 PM EST
GREENVILLE,
SC (FOX Carolina) -
The
South Carolina Highway Patrol said troopers responded to a fatal crash
Wednesday morning.
According
to the Highway Patrol website, the crash occurred about 7:30 a.m. on SC-11 at
Dill Road.
Greenville
County Coroner Kent Dill said a driver lost control rounding a curve and was
not wearing a seatbelt.
Dill
said the car entered the woods where the driver was ejected from the vehicle.
The
Spartanburg School District One identified the victim as Jordan Skyler Powell,
a junior at Landrum High School.
“Our
thoughts and prayers go out to Skyler's family during this difficult time,”
Landrum High School Principal Jason McCraw said. “Our students and faculty have
lost a wonderful young man and our hearts are very heavy today. Please keep our
school family in your thoughts and prayers."
A
representative from the school district said Powell was a football player for
Landrum High.
Coroner
Dill said Powell was on the way to school when the wreck occurred. Dill
determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma.
