LEE COUNTY, S.C. — Authorities have identified a man who died in a crash that also injured another on Monday in Lee County.
According to Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 3 p.m. on Rembert Church Road about 12 miles south of Bishopville. Ridgeway said a 1986 International tractor-trailer was heading south on the road when a 2020 Chevrolet sedan heading north crossed the center line and sideswiped it.
Both drivers were injured with the tractor-trailer driver taken to McCleod Regional Medical Center in Florence and the sedan driver to Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital in Sumter County.
The sedan driver, later identified by Lee County Coroner Larry Logan as 43-year-old Timothy McCauley of Sumter County, died at the hospital. The other driver's injuries weren't specified.
The crash is still under investigation.
