South Carolina Highway Patrol released new details Friday on a crash that killed two men on Interstate 26 last month, saying a 24-year-old driver was traveling east in the westbound lane before the collision near Bush River Road.
Troopers said Josiah Evan crashed into 31-year-old Dyquan Adams at the 107.5 mile marker on April 19. The Highway Patrol report said both men were tested and suspected of having alcohol in their systems at the time of the crash, with Evan showing a blood alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08% and Adams at more than double that level.
The report placed the blame squarely on Evan, saying he was the only party responsible for the crash. That finding matters because the case turns on two things that left little room for dispute: lane position and alcohol. The crash happened on Interstate 26 near Bush River Road, and the patrol’s new details make clear investigators believe the wrong-way driving set off the chain of events that killed both men.
What remains most important now is the official account of why Evan was in the westbound lane in the first place. The Highway Patrol report did not add more than that, but it did turn a fatal wreck into a case defined by one driver’s direction, and one decision that ended in two deaths.
