SALUDA COUNTY, S.C. — A Batesburg-Leesville resident is dead after an early morning crash in Saluda County on Sunday.
According to Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened just after midnight on South Carolina Route 23 near Dickert Road - roughly three miles west of Batesburg.
Ridgeway said the victim, later identified by the Saluda County coroner as 45-year-old Mary Laverne Long, was driving a 2003 Chevrolet sedan when the vehicle left the roadway. It then hit a ditch and then a utility pole. Ridgeway said the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
No specific details regarding what may have caused the crash have been provided at this time.
