74-year-old dies after driving head-on into shed that fell onto SC highway, cops say
A 74-year-old died after he drove into a shed that had fallen onto a South Carolina road, officials said.
The storage unit came loose from another driver’s trailer after it hit a guardrail on Wednesday, March 30. The S.C. Highway Patrol said a pickup truck was towing the shed east on state Highway 418 when it broke free.
“As a result, the storage shed became dislodged from the utility trailer and entered the westbound lane of S.C. 418,” Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway said in a news release.
Officials said a tractor-trailer then ran into the storage unit head-on. That truck’s 74-year-old driver died at the scene of the crash, according to the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.
The deceased tractor-trailer driver was identified as Berly Gibbs Zeigler, who lived in Orangeburg.
The person behind the wheel of the pickup truck wasn’t injured, according to officials.
State troopers said the crash happened at about 8:30 a.m., roughly 20 miles south of downtown Greenville. The incident was under investigation as of March 30.
The following day, an autopsy was set “to determine the cause of death,” the coroner’s office said in a news release.
This story was originally published March 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM with the headline "74-year-old dies after driving head-on into shed that fell onto SC highway, cops say."
