Crime & Public Safety
Single-vehicle rollover on Hwy 544 in Horry County injures one
A single-car overturned on Highway 544 near the Highway 707 Connector in Horry County Saturday morning, and one person was injured, county fire officials said. Horry County Fire Rescue reported they were dispatched at about 10:11 a.m. to a reported crash with a confined occupant and found the vehicle overturned, blocking lanes bound for Conway.
Fire rescue personnel carried out extrication operations to free the confined person. After being removed from the vehicle, the injured occupant was transported to a nearby hospital with injuries described by the agency as non-life-threatening. The South Carolina Highway Patrol was identified as the investigating agency handling the crash scene and any follow-up inquiry.
The timeline reported by the county agency places the rescue response and extrication on scene in the late morning and notes lane blockages on Conway-bound Highway 544 while crews worked. Those are the documented actions and conditions; the investigating agency was named but no cause, contributing factors, or citations were reported by authorities in the available account.
At the time of the report the incident remained under investigation by the state patrol. No additional confirmed injuries, arrests, or charges have been documented by the responding agencies in the supplied account.
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