MARLBORO COUNTY, SC (WMBF) – The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash in Marlboro County.

Officers were called shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday to Carrolton Avenue near Highway 9, which is near Bennettsville, for a vehicle accident.

LC pl. Lena Butler with the South Carolina Highway Patrol said the driver was on Carrolton Avenue when he hit a deer and went off the road and into a ditch.

Butler said the driver was the only person inside the car and died at the scene.

The coroner’s office has not released the driver’s name.

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