Deadly wreck ruled suicide
Published: July 10, 2008
The Darlington County Coroner’s Office finished its investigation into the wreck that killed a Society Hill man.
Coroner Todd Hardee says David Brown intentionally steered his car into the path of an oncoming truck. He ruled the death a suicide.
The crash happened on June 28th around 9 a.m. on Highway 52 just north of Darlington.
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Who is the “Her” in your comment? There is no mention of a female in the story, and they made no mention of a seat belt un-buckling. Was “she” the one driving the other truck?
The way I heard it. He was TRYING to kill her, but it didnt work out for him. This is a small town and that was heresay, but thats the story as I heard it. That he actually unbuckled her before swerving infront of the truck.
Just wondering how the coroner can say for sure that he was trying to commit suicide. I don’t have an opinion one way or another, but what if he glanced away from the road or was on trying to change the radio station? Maybe he fell asleep….That is a pretty serious thing to say and I was just curious how he can know that for sure, unless he left a note or something. Some insurances will not pay out if it is a suicide so I just hope for his families sake they made the right call. Either way, condolences are in order for both the man killed and the other driver as well as the families.
If you must kill yourself,why try to take somebody you don’t even know with you? I think a lot of so called accidents are intentional like this one evidently was. My condolences to his family.
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