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Weekend lightning deaths and traffic crashes claim nine in South Carolina
The Associated Press reports nine people died in weekend accidents across South Carolina. Names include a 62 year old Spartanburg man struck at Kiawah Island, a 28 year old Aiken woman who hit a bridge on U.S. 1, and Asa Bell Lee II who died in Charleston after a lightning strike. Additional fatalities occurred in Hemingway, Pickens, Dillon, Elloree, Moncks Corner, Santee, and Orangeburg County.
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Spartanburg
Kiawah Island
Aiken
Debra Gail Treadaway
U.S. 1
Aiken County
Asa Bell Lee II
Roper Hospital
Charleston
Ray Shokes
Lee
Asa Bell Lee III
Winston-Salem
N.C
Medical University of South Carolina
Shokes
Lees
Joseph Goss
Hemingway
U.S. 17
Conway
Horry County
Highway Patrol
Goss
Stephen E. Puckette
Johns Island
U.S. 123
Pickens County
Gerald Aaron Lyda
Liberty
Dillon
Kenneth Edward Harris
Dillon County
U.S. 52
Moncks Corner
Michael Pearson
Santee
U.S. 301
Orangeburg
Associated Press