MAY 12, 2015
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C.
South Carolina Highway Patrol said two men were thrown from
their truck and pronounced dead in the double fatal crash in Spartanburg County
Tuesday.
Tony Keller with the Highway Patrol said two men in a 1980
Ford truck made an illegal lane change in the westbound lanes of I-26 near mile
marker five at 1 p.m, and were struck by a tractor-trailer heading in the same
direction.
The Ford truck overturned and ejected the two men from the
car. Neither of them was wearing a seat belt and both were pronounced dead on
the scene, Keller said.
The driver of the Ford truck was a 59-year-old male from
Campobello, and the passenger was a 72-year-old male from Rutherford, N.C,
Keller said.
The coroner has not released the names yet.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.