An off-duty firefighter ran out of fuel before he was struck and killed, South Carolina officials said.
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A 29-year-old firefighter died while refueling a car that ran out of gas on a South Carolina road, officials said.
Daniel Bagwell was trying to put gas in his car when he was struck by another vehicle on Monday, Oct. 10, according to the Anderson County Coroner’s Office.
Bagwell, who died in the crash, was from Pelzer, an Anderson County town about 15 miles southwest of Greenville, officials said.
The 29-year-old man was an Anderson Township firefighter and was off-duty at the time of the crash, the coroner’s office said in a news release.
In a Facebook post nearby West Pelzer Fire Department remembered Bagwell as a firefighter who rose through the ranks to become Anderson City Sergeant.
“West Pelzer Fire asks that you pray for the Bagwell family as well as the firefighting community as we mourn the loss of one of our own,” the department wrote.
As of October 10, the coroner’s office reported that there was accident investigation, which happened around 2:15 p.m., WYFF reported. The crash happened on Midway Road near the junction with Stevens Court.
State troopers said the man accused of hitting Bagwell was in a truck. The driver and passenger of the truck were not injured in the crash, WYFF reports.
“The victim died as a result of multiple blunt force trauma to the brain,” the coroner’s office wrote.
The Anderson Fire Department and the SC Highway Patrol, which is reportedly one of the agencies investigating the crash, did not immediately share additional details with McClatchy News on Oct. 11.