Highway Patrol investigators now say the wreck that claimed three lives on I-26 North of Spartanburg early Monday was a wrong-way collision between a car and a Hummer whose driver tried to run from the scene.
Troopers say the Hummer was headed west in the eastbound lane of the interstate near the John Dodd Road when it collided head-on with a Kia Sedan carrying four people. Three of them, the driver and two passengers, were fatally injured. A third passenger is in ICU.
Troopers say the driver of the Hummer, 43-year-old Melissa Ann Parker of Spartanburg, ran from the wreckage but was apprehended not far away.
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Parker is charged with three counts of felony DUI with death, three counts of felony hit-and-run with death and one count of felony hit-and-run with injury.
The Spartanburg County coroner says the victims included twin sisters, 17-year-old Elleana Lee Gaddis and Isabella Lee Gaddis died, as did 18-year-old Brianna Lynn Foster. A fourth Indiana teen was hospitalized. All were from Fishers, in suburban Indianapolis.
