2-year-old killed when driver loses control and veers off road, South Carolina cops say
A 2-year-old was killed when a driver lost control and veered off a South Carolina road, officials said.
The child was riding in an SUV when it started to leave the right side of a road on Wednesday, Oct. 26, according to the Pickens County Coroner’s Office and S.C. Highway Patrol.
The driver over-corrected, went across the center line and careened off the left side of the road. The SUV then “traveled back off the right side of the roadway, striking a tree, then a fence, then a sign,” Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway said in a news release.
The child — the only passenger in the SUV — died at the scene from blunt-force trauma. The coroner’s office identified the toddler as Ethan Shane Rampey.
The driver was injured and rushed to a hospital, according to state troopers.
Officials in their news release didn’t say whether anyone has been charged in the crash, which was reported just before 8 a.m. on Finley Road near Anderson Highway. The crash site is near the town of Easley and roughly 15 miles southwest of Greenville.
An investigation into the deadly wreck continues, officials said.
This story was originally published October 27, 2022 at 10:46 AM with the headline "2-year-old killed when driver loses control and veers off road, South Carolina cops say."
