Update: Disabled Pedestrian Killed by Dump Truck is Identified
An elderly man in wheelchair was struck and killed Monday morning in Five Points.
Update, June 27: An elderly man who was struck and killed by a commercial dump truck while operating his motorized wheelchair Monday in Five Points has been identified. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts identified the victim as 67-year-old George Jackson of Read Street in Columbia. He was struck in his wheelchair at the intersection of Harden Street and Greene Street just after 10:15 a.m. Monday. More here. Original story: A man in a motorized wheelchair was struck and killed Monday morning by a dump truck in Five Points. "The man, whose identity has not been released, was lying in the road, bleeding profusely from head injuries, on the west side of Greene Street several feet from where that street intersects Harden Street," according to…
