Horry County coroner identifies victims of two separate car crashes from Friday afternoon

Two people died in separate car wrecks on the Grand Strand on Friday afternoon.

Elizabeth Manos, 56, died in a crash at the intersection of S.C. 9 East and Rum Bluff Boulevard in Longs, while 34-year-old Christoper Gude was killed in a wreck less than two hours later at 4380 U.S. 701 South near Conway, according to the Horry County Coroner’s Office.

Manos, who was not wearing a seat belt, was traveling north in the A Plus Auto Sales parking lot when she struck two parked vehicles and a fence before her 2009 Mercedes SUV overturned in a ditch at approximately 4:40 p.m., the South Carolina Highway Patrol reports. She was a Longs resident.

Gude, from the Conway area, was driving a 2009 Chevrolet pickup truck south on U.S. 701 near Neighbor Lane at 6:25 p.m. when he ran off the right side of the road into a ditch before hitting several coverts, a fence line and telephone poll and overturning, according to the SCHP. Gude, who was not wearing a seat belt and was partially ejected from the truck, died on scene from multiple trauma, authorities report.

This story was originally published August 3, 2019 at 3:46 PM.