RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. — A motor coach driver died after striking a broken-down tractor-trailer on Interstate 20 early Friday, shutting down part of the interstate for hours, the South Carolina Highway Patrol said.
Master Trooper William Bennett said the crash happened about 6 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-20 near mile marker 70, which is near the Fairfield Road exit in Richland County. Bennett said a 2021 Freightliner tractor-trailer had broken down in the road, and no one was inside when a 2007 Prevost motor coach struck its trailer. The driver was the only person in the motor coach at the time of the crash, officials said.
Bennett said the crash was under investigation and that the Richland County coroner would release the driver’s name.