SUMTER COUNTY, SC : 1 dead, 1 injured in Sumter County car crash on Wednesday, 6th December 2023

A man has died following a car crash involving three cars in Sumter County.

The crash happened on Wednesday before 4 a.m. on Pinewood Road near Starks Ferry Road.

According to Sumter County Coroner, Robbie Baker 39-year-old Merrill Lonjin Jr., of Sumter, was pronounced dead on the scene.

Baker said Lonjin was driving a 2011 Mercury while traveling on Pinewood Road when he crossed the center line and struck another vehicle head-on causing him to be entrapped in the vehicle. He was not wearing a seatbelt.

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