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SUV crashed with a tractor-trailer early morning on Tuesday, the crash fatal for the SUV driver

Tractor-trailer-SUV early morning Tuesday crash in Williamsburg County was fatal for the SUV driver, state troopers say.

According to them, the crash took place on Old Georgetown Road near Burlington Road around 7:15 a.m.

Master Trooper Brian Lee said that a 1999 Freightliner tractor-trailer was turning onto Old Georgetown Road from a private driveway and failed to yield right of way to a 2007 Kia SUV traveling south on Old Georgetown Road.

That’s the moment when the SUV struck the tractor-trailer leaving the SUV driver dead.

The driver of the tractor-trailer was uninjured.

Authorities didn’t reveal the identity of the driver immediately.

The crash is under investigation by the Highway Patrol.

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