The SC Highway Patrol is investigating an early morning wreck on I 95. According to troopers, the driver of a pickup truck ran off the road and hit a tree in the media.
According to the Colleton County Fire Rescue, a 67-year-old North Carolina man died from multiple traumatic injuries sustained from the wreck.
The accident was reported at 02:53 a.m., after another driver reported hitting debris in the highway and noticing something red in the median.
Fire-Rescue units arrived minutes later to find the 2001 Dodge pick-up truck on the left shoulder with massive damage. It appeared the car drifted off of the left shoulder, entered the median and struck several large trees.
The driver was wearing a seatbelt. Firefighter-Paramedics found the driver heavily entrapped in the wreckage. Fire-Rescue crews used Holmatro Rescue Tools to remove the driver’s side door, cut away several pieces of debris, and a hydraulic ram to displace the dash and floor.
A small dog was found alive in the floor board of the truck. He was placed in a nearby fire truck until animal control could arrived and take custody of the animal.
The SC Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
