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BREAKING NEWS
Aug. 23, 2010
Two men die in weekend car crashes
LEIGHTON BELL
Editor – The Link
Two Chesterfield County residents were killed in
single-vehicle car crashes Aug. 21.
Twenty-five-year-old Tommy Rogers of Cheraw died after
losing control of his car on Teals Mill Road about 3 a.m., according to Lance
Cpl. Josef Robinson of the S.C. Highway Patrol.
Robinson said Rogers was traveling south on Teals Mill Road
when he went off the right side of the road, striking a tree and culvert, and
overturning. Rogers was reportedly not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from
the car.
Robinson said Rogers was taken to Chesterfield General
Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The second fatal crash occurred about 4:40 p.m. on S.C.
Highway 742 about six miles north of Chesterfield.
Sixty-three-year-old Danny Davis was reportedly traveling
south on 742 when he drove off the right side of the road, over corrected his
steering sending him over the left side of the road where he overturned and
struck several trees. Robinson said Davis was not wearing a seat belt and was
ejected from his car, which was a 1966 Ford Mustang.
Davis was transported to a hospital in Anson County, N.C.,
where he was pronounced dead.
Robinson said both accidents are still under investigation
with toxicology tests pending.