Cherokee Falls,SC : Coroner identifies tractor-trailer driver killed in fiery crash on I-85 on June, Tuesday 13th 2017
Cherokee Falls, South Carolina
The Cherokee County Coroner's Office on Thursday identified the tractor-trailer driver killed in a fiery crash on Tuesday night.
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Coroner Dennis Fowler said Emmanuel Owuraku Abeasi, 45, of Braselton, Georgia had to be identified using dental records.
Abeasi was an independent hauler, who had picked up a load of foam in Newnan, Georgia and was headed to New York when the collision occured, Fowler said.
Two other people were injured in the crash, but their conditions are unknown.
The crash was reported just after 8 p.m. at mile marker 106 near the North Carolina/South Carolina state line.
Fowler said Abeasi's 2007 Freightliner tractor-trailer headed north, crossed into the median, clipped the cable barrier and went into the southbound lanes.
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Coroner identifies tractor-trailer driver killed in fiery crash on I-85