Then on Tuesday, just before 3 p.m., Darlington coroner J. Todd Hardee said 49-year-old Garner died after a crash on Highway 34 in Mechanicsville, SC. Hardee said Garner’s vehicle crashed head-on with a truck.

McColl Mayor George Garner, who died in a two-vehicle crash on Tuesday, was connected to an active SLED investigation, an official told News13. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division spokeswoman Renee Wunderlich said the agency’s probe is “active and ongoing,

ABC 15 has learned that a state police investigation was underway involving the Town of McColl.A source said agents with the State Law Enforcement Division (SLE

A mayor in a Pee Dee town is dead after a Tuesday afternoon car crash. According to Darlington County Coroner Todd Hardee, McColl Mayor George Garner died in a two-vehicle crash on Cashua Ferry Road.

Marlboro County’s sheriff said Wednesday that officers were behind McColl Mayor George Garner but not “pursuing him” when he crashed head-on into an 18-wheeler and died. Garner crashed Tuesday afternoon on Cashua Ferry Road in Darlington County.

A state investigation and police pursuit both surround the death of an elected official from South Carolina’s Pee Dee Region. Darlington County Coroner Todd Hardee says 49 year old, George Garner died after crashing his vehicle into an 18 wheeler.