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77-year-old killed in Lancaster County crash, officials say

The driver of a 2002 Buick died when they crashed into a tractor-trailer on Pageland Highway a few miles outside Lancaster Tuesday night, state troopers said.

LANCASTER, S.C. — A Lancaster woman was killed in a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer in Lancaster County on Tuesday night, state troopers said. 

South Carolina Highway Patrol responded to a crash on Pageland Highway, about 6 miles east of Lancaster, around 9 p.m. on Oct. 22. Troopers said three vehicles were involved in the crash. 

The driver of a 2002 Buick, identified as 77-year-old Leslie Thomas of Lancaster, was traveling east on Pageland Highway when she ran into a Mack tractor-trailer near the intersection with Herschel Plyler Road, investigators said. The collision forced the tractor-trailer into a Chevy pickup truck that was driving beside it. The driver of the Chevy pickup truck ran off the road and crashed into a mailbox. Troopers said four people inside the Chevy were not hurt in the collision. 

Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not hurt in the crash. 

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