Ring recovered from ashes of fiery, 10-vehicle crash on I-26

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An engagement ring feared destroyed in a fiery, multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 26 near Columbia has been returned to its owner unscathed.

WIS-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1eHt8Yw ) that Kelly Winters assumed the flames consumed his wife’s ring. Winters was in one of the 10 vehicles destroyed in Wednesday’s crash after a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel overturned.

No one was seriously injured. Winters helped pull one driver to safety.

One thing Winters left behind was the ring he was getting resized for his wife.

But his insurance adjuster found it while sifting through the ashes in the impound lot. Winters says the ring was hand-delivered to him at the hospital, then taken to a jeweler to get cleaned, repaired and resized.

Winters then surprised his wife with it Friday.

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Information from: WIS-TV, http://www.wistv.com