Driver heading home from work drowns after car veers into creek, SC coroner says
A driver was heading home from work when she veered off a road and plunged into a South Carolina creek, officials said.
The woman drowned after her car landed in the water on Friday, June 24, according to the Anderson County coroner’s office.
Officials said the driver was on her way home when she “apparently traveled off the right side of (the) roadway, struck a traffic sign and rolled the vehicle into a creek.”
Video from WYFF shows a car flipped with its wheels in the air. The car was submerged in the water, and a dive team had to pull the woman out, officials said.
The deceased driver was identified in a news release as 55-year-old Erin Eileen Parker. She lived in Pendleton, roughly 30 miles southwest of Greenville.
No other cars were involved in the crash, which was reported at about 3:30 p.m. along Westinghouse Road in Pendleton.
The coroner’s office said the woman, who wore a seat belt, was likely driving too fast when she went off the road. She “died as a result of drowning, secondary to a motor vehicle crash,” according to officials.
As of late June 24, the coroner’s office and the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office continued to investigate Parker’s death.
This story was originally published June 27, 2022 at 9:50 AM with the headline "Driver heading home from work drowns after car veers into creek, SC coroner says."
