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  Crash caused by transfer truck sends two to hospital web posted December 18, 2006  TRENTON – An
18-wheeler sent cars dodging off both sides of Highway 25
Saturday around noon when he ran up on a northbound car and swerved to
avoid a collision. As a result he entered the southbound lane and a
line of cars started swerving for the shoulders and other means of
defensive driving, one lost control and slammed into a tree injuring
the two women inside.The truck driver said he was reaching up to place some tissue in an overhead compartment and when he looked back down he was right on top of the burgundy car in front of him. He said he hit the brakes and tried to avoid striking the car by moving to the center of the two-lane highway at the bottom of a hill just south of Vann Road. “I was hoping to get out of it with anyone making contact with each other,” he said.  That plan did not
work and other drivers said they were afraid they
were going to hit other traffic head-on, “I went this way (to the left)
and just missed getting hit when she (the driver of the Chevrolet
Impala) lost control and hit the tree,” one said. Another witness said
everyone was trying to find a way to not hit the big truck by going off
the shoulders which were narrow and only a few trees protected drivers
from ponds on both sides of the road. “There was nowhere to go,” one
woman said.The two occupants of the Impala were immobilized and taken to MCG for treatment of their injuries. The South Carolina Highway Patrol investigated the crash and implied the driver of the truck would be facing charges in the crash. The nature of the charge was not released on the scene. For
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