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SC Couple killed in auto accident
Posted: 01.19.2009 at 3:45 PM
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SC couple killed when car hits tree near Greer

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GREER, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina state troopers say a couple has died after their car hit a tree about a mile from their home.

Troopers say the man and woman were in a speeding 1997 Saturn that ran off the ride side of the road an hit a tree Saturday night.

Spartanburg County Coroner's Investigator Ken Toney says 60-year-old John Godfrey was trapped in the vehicle and died at the scene, while 52-year-old Carolyn Pemberton died about an hour after the wreck at a hospital.

Troopers say the crash happened on a rural road, about a mile from the couple's home in Greer.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

APNP 01-19-09 1440EST

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