The mayor of a South Carolina town died in a car crash on Tuesday just days after the resignation of the town’s entire police department.
McColl Mayor George Garner II, 49, was killed in a head-on collision with a truck on Highway 34 in Mechanicsville, South Carolina, around 2:40 p.m., according to a statement posted on Facebook by Darlington County Coroner J. Todd Hardee on Wednesday.
Garner was driving westbound in a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe when he veered into the eastbound lane and collided head-on with an 18-wheeler, Hardee told WBTW News13.
South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Lena Butler told WBTW News13 that the truck driver was also injured and that Garner died at McLeod Regional Medical Center from injuries sustained in the wreck….