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Posted 08 October 2015 - 08:10 PM

WTVQ-TV, Lexington, KY, 10/7:
 

 

Two R.J. Corman railroad employees die in SC flooding

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —Authorities say the two men killed in South Carolina when the pickup truck they were in drove around a barricade and off a washed out road into the water were out-of-state contractors working to check damaged railroad tracks.

 

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said divers found the bodies of 58-year-old Robert Vance of Lexington, Kentucky, and 53-year-old Ricky McDonald of Chesapeake, Ohio, on Wednesday afternoon.

 

Deputies say five men were in the truck when it drove around a barricade around 3 a.m. Wednesday and hit a 20-foot section of road that had been washed out, plunging into the floodwaters below. The other three men swam to safety.

 

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Posted 08 October 2015 - 08:17 PM

WTVQ-TV, Lexington, KY, 10/7:

 

R.J. Corman: Signs & barricades improperly placed in deadly flooding accident

 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- RJ Corman is mourning the loss of two employees who were killed in the South Carolina flooding. It’s also releasing new information on what happened.

 

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In a statement, RJ Corman said, “We are in the process of gathering more information about the accident and are fully cooperating with an ongoing official investigation.   .  .  .South Carolina State Highway Patrol has confirmed reports that those signs and barricades were improperly placed, giving the employees the impression that only the opposite side of the road from which they were traversing was closed.   .  .  .

 

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