SALUDA COUNTY, S.C. — Authorities say a Saluda resident died early Sunday morning following a single-vehicle crash.
According to Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened just before 5 a.m. on Old Chappell Ferry Road near Boulder Drive - roughly five miles northwest of Johnston.
Ridgeway said that a 1997 Honda sedan was heading north on Old Chappell Ferry Road when it crossed the center line. He said it then traveled off the left side of the road and struck a mailbox, a ditch, and a culvert.
Ridgeway said the victim of the crash, who was not identified but was said to be 32-year-old and from Saluda, died at the scene.