SCHP: Driver dead after hitting tree in Lexington County

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

FILE - Shown is a Philadelphia police car with flashing lights in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. The Philadelphia Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police has filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 seeking to stop a city law banning officers from pulling over drivers for low-level offenses from going into effect saying the law illegally pre-empts existing state laws on traffic violations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO)– A driver is dead after vehicle goes off the side of the road and hits a tree, says highway patrol.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol says the driver of a 2004 Toyota was traveling south on Pine Plane Road when the vehicle went off the left side of the road and hit a tree.

The collision happened 1 and a half miles east of Gaston around 12:30 a.m. on early Thursday morning.

Highway Patrol says they are continuing to investigate the collision.