Double Fatality

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) _ A car crash in Lexington County has claimed the lives of both the South Carolina driver and a North Carolina pedestrian walking along the highway. Authorities say it happened early Friday along U.S. 378. The Highway Patrol reports a 28-year-old man from Batesburg-Leesville was driving a car that left the highway, hit a guardrail and then hit w woman from North Carolina walking along the road. The names of the victims have not been released. Both died at the scene. The driver of the car was not wearing a seatbelt.