One dead after being ejected from vehicle collision near Hollow Creek

Hollow Creek, SC (06/01/2021 Paul Kirby) – One person has died at Prisma Health’s Trauma Center after being ejected from a single-vehicle collision in the Hollow Creek area of the county. The collision occurred on Rock N Creek Road near Nathanial Oxner Road at approximately 9:20 p.m. on Monday, May 31, 2021.

According to Lance Corporal Tyler Tidwell of the SCHP the lone occupant of the vehicle was driving east on Rock N Creek Road in a 2011 Toyota 4-Runner when it ran off the right side of the road, overcorrected, went off the left side of the road, and then overturned. The driver was not seat belted and was ejected through the sunroof of the vehicle.

Paramedics, firefighters, and law enforcement officers rushed to the scene and began to care for the driver. They transported that patient to a local landing zone where the patient was transferred to a medical helicopter for transport to the trauma center in Columbia. There, that person later succumbed to their injuries.

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher will release the name of the decedent when it is appropriate to do so.