ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. — An infant has died following an Upstate South Carolina crash involving a cement truck and several other vehicles on Thursday.
According to Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore, the crash happened around 1:45 p.m. on Highway 29 near Welcome Road outside Williamston. Shore said a cement truck was traveling too fast for conditions and hit the back of a 2013 Chevrolet Impala that stopped due to roadwork in the area.
The impact pushed the Chevrolet into a Dodge pickup truck, which then pushed that truck into several other vehicles, causing a pile-up. The cement truck overturned and went down an embankment. In all, 10 vehicles were involved in the crash.
Shore said a three-month-old child from Anderson, later identified as Jakai Govan, was pulled from the wreckage of the Chevrolet and taken by helicopter to Greenville Memorial Hospital, where he died around 1 a.m. on Friday. His office determined the child's cause of death to be a subdural hemorrhage secondary to a skull fracture. The manner was deemed to be an accident.
The coroner, South Carolina Highway Patrol and the state agency's Multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) are investigating the crash. Several agencies responded to the crash.