Pedestrian killed when struck by a car near the town of Chester, trooper says
A woman crossing a road on foot died Friday morning near Chester after being struck by a car, officials said.
The fatality is the fourth in less than a week in the South Carolina county, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol and Chester County Coroner’s Office.
The incident Friday happened around 1:40 a.m. on J.A. Cochran Bypass, said Lance Cpl. Lena Butler of the highway patrol.
The pedestrian died at the scene, officials said. The driver of the car was not hurt.
The person who died Friday has been identified as Cassidy McCorkle, 20, Chester County Coroner Terry Tinker told The Herald.
The area is outside the Chester city limits, south of the intersection of the Bypass and S.C. 72. Chester is a mainly rural county of around 32,000 people between Rock Hill and Columbia.
Other fatalities in Chester County this week
In unrelated collisions in different areas, three other people died this week in Chester County.
A person died Monday after a crash on S.C 97 in southern Chester County, the highway patrol and coroner said. The coroner’s office in Chester County, identified the person who died in that crash as James Randall Laws, 19.
In a different crash on S.C. 901 near the York County line in northeastern Chester County later in the week, two people were killed and a third was hurt in a wreck, troopers and coroner officials said. The Chester coroner identified the people who died as Ernest Foster, 60, and George Holloway Jr., 82, both of York County.
There have been six road fatalities in Chester County in 2023, according to statistics released by the S.C. Department of Public Safety.
Chester County had 20 fatalities on roads in all of 2022, according to statistics from the department of public safety analyzed by The Herald as part of its series on commuters and safety.
All three of this week’s crashes remain under investigation by the coroner’s office and the public safety department.
This story was originally published February 24, 2023 at 10:02 AM.
