Drowning

5 year old drowns in Sumter hotel swimming pool

(Photo Courtesy: GoFundMe.com) Sumter, SC (WOLO) — According to Sumter County Coroner, Coroner Baker EMS responded to the Econo Lodge in the 200 block of N. Washington Street around 6 p.m. Saturday June 1st, 2019. Baker says once officials arrived the little girl was unconscious and transported to Prisma Health Toumey Hospital where she was pronounced dead an hour later…

Coroner: 2 Men Drowned After Head-On Ridgeville Collision

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (AP) – Two Eutawville men have drowned after their vehicle ended up in a creek following a head-on collision in Ridgeway. Dorchester County Coroner Alice Durr tells local media that 74-year-old Steve Singletary and 66-year-old William Gooding both died Monday afternoon at Captain’s Creek on South Carolina Highway 27. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Matt Southern says an SUV…