An accident in South Carolina on Monday caused a man to have a medical emergency. He later died at a hospital, according to the Oconee County Coroner’s Office.
71-year-old Dennis Jeffery Green from Seneca died from injuries he got in what the coroner’s office called an accident.
The coroner’s office said Green had a heart attack at the scene and was taken to Oconee Memorial Hospital’s emergency room. He was then moved to Greenville Memorial Hospital, where he died at 12:25 p.m.
Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway of the South Carolina Highway Patrol said the two-car accident happened at 7:20 a.m. at the crossing of Wells Highway and Singing Pines Road.
Ridgeway says Green was heading south on Singing Pines Road in a 2018 Nissan SUV. Ridgeway said that the 2016 Jaguar sedan was going north on Singing Pines Road and didn’t stop at the stop sign at the crossing with Wells Highway. The two cars crashed as the SUV was turning left onto Wells Highway.
Ridgeway said the Jaguar driver wasn’t hurt and that no one else was hurt either.
There was no word on whether Green or the Jaguar driver was wearing a seat belt. The Highway Patrol is still looking into the crash.
The South Carolina Department of Public Safety says that as of November 3, at least 817 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2024. DPS said that 1,030 people died in crashes in South Carolina last year.
DPS records show that at least 13 people have died in crashes in Oconee County in 2024.
Source: South Carolina Man Dies Following Medical Emergency That Led to Crash, Coroner Reports
