Willie Kentavia Williams, 26, of 26 Squirrel Run Lane, Silverstreet, is believed to have left home around 10 p.m. to take a friend, who lives in the lower part of the county, home, according Newberry County Coroner Craig Newton.
As Williams returned to town, he crossed the roadway, hit a curb and traveled across a vacant lot at Paw Paws Trail at a high rate of speed, said Newton.
The coroner says he doesn’t know what caused the car to go across the four-lane road and off the road.
The car then struck a driveway and overturned several times.
Williams, who was wearing a seatbelt, was killed instantly.
A sheriff’s deputy on routine patrol discovered the wreck at 1:26 a.m. Thursday.
Newton is estimating the single car wreck occurred around 1 a.m.
An autopsy was performed yesterday and the wreck is still under investigation.
Williams is the first person to die in a vehicle fatality this year in Newberry County.
TWO AIRLIFTS
Around 7:30 a.m. yesterday, a car ran off the road and into trees near the intersection of Graham and Graham Cemetery roads in Pomaria.
The driver was airlifted to a Columbia hospital and the passenger was trapped for a time in the vehicle.
A 21-year-old was also airlifted to Palmetto Richland Hospital around 5 a.m. today after a high-speed wreck caused a vehicle to overturn on I-26 at the 75-mile marker.
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