Weather May Have Been Factor in Fatal Peach Road Wreck

RIDGEWAY – A Ridgeway woman was killed Tuesday morning when the car she was driving ran off Peach Road near Ridgeway.

Fairfield County Coroner Barkley Ramsey said 30-year-old Crystal Denise Smith, of Dogwood Apartments on Church Street in Ridgeway, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which the S.C. Highway Patrol said occurred at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday. Smith was driving a 2007 Suzuki Forenza east on Peach Road when she ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree 1.5 miles east of Ridgeway near Starks Road, the Highway Patrol said. She was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.

Ramsey said that while snow had begun falling in Fairfield County by the time of the crash, the roads were slushy but not impaired. However, Ramsey said he believes the weather conditions plus speed contributed to the accident.

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