Vehicle crashes through guardrail into lake at dam, Columbia SC
TrafficA vehicle broke through the guardrail at the dam near Saluda Dam and entered the lake. The driver was found deceased in the lake two days later. The vehicle apparently flew over rocks and crashed into the water on the lake side of the dam.
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00:00
I have a question, you're going to cross the dam, right?
00:04
Sir.
00:07
I've seen something that there was an accident over there where some charger or something landed in the lake side. I don't know if they tore the guardrail down or whatever. I heard that they went down inside the lake side, I think, near the turbines.
00:26
Well, that ought to be interested.
00:31
Yeah, it was the other day.
00:34
I don't know if you might be out of see some damage out there, but supposedly they killed them. They found them two days later in the lake.
00:47
Mike, you're making me think I ought to pay more attention to the local news.
00:52
I know.
00:54
But it happened right there at the dam.
00:56
On the Irmo side,
00:58
I heard he went over,
01:01
flew over the rocks and everything and landing in the water.
01:04
But they found them two days later.
01:09
He had to be moving pretty good to get through the guard rail, cross that side vault, through that wall,
01:17
and still clear the rocks, get the water.
01:20
He wasn't playing. He meant to get there.
01:25
Yeah, said he had some legal issues. I don't know if he's being chased or what happened, but yep,
01:33
I suppose it happened right there on Highway 6.
01:40
I have to take a look at that when we get there.
01:45
Yeah, I figured I'd mention it to you, see if you see anything.
01:49
But it looks like it,
01:50
in order for him to land on the water, it has to be on the lake side, because the other side, I don't know how he would go over that big wall and get over on the other side of the dam.
02:05
Yeah, they'd have the air lifting to get him in the water on the other side.
02:09
That would have took some work.
02:12
On the lake side, he had to do some work. He had to be pretty serious about getting to the water if he did that on the lake side.
02:18
He had a lot of stuff to get through.
02:23
Yeah, I guess it supposedly what they're saying is it launched.
02:28
He hits some out there, I don't know how the ramp or how the road goes.
02:32
I didn't see anything there or a jump that high to go over that rail, but apparently he did.
02:42
He did all that in the charger. He was working at it.
02:49
Yeah, well let me know if you see something.
02:51
I guess it's from the park.
02:54
We can park to launch the boats is from there somewhere up towards the dam.
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Location mentioned:
Saluda Dam, Columbia, SC 29212
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