Piedmont man fatally injured in truck rollover

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The Anderson County Coroner’s office in is investigating a motor vehicle crash involving a waste removal truck that occurred Dec. 29 on Roberts Church Road in Anderson, that resulted in one person’s death.
Medshore EMS, Anderson County EMS, Anderson County Fire Department, Anderson
County Emergency Management, the South Carolina Highway Patrol and Investigators
with the Office of the Coroner responded to the scene.
Anderson County Deputy Coroner Ty Blackwell identified the victim as Dennis Maxwell Beeman, Sr., 60, of Piedmont
According to Blackwell, the victim was entrapped under the vehicle and pronounced deceased at the scene due to multiple traumatic injuries secondary to blunt force trauma.
The investigation indicates that the victim was a riding in the passenger seat of a waste
removal truck towing a back-hoe traveling North on Roberts Church Road when the
vehicle operator lost control of the vehicle, traveled off the right side of the roadway and
then back across the roadway, off the left side of the roadway and overturned. The
victim was unrestrained and was partially ejected from the vehicle and trapped under
the vehicle requiring heavy extrication from fire personnel.
The investigation is on-going by the Anderson County Office of the Coroner and the
South Carolina Highway Patrol.