Six sent for treatment after northern Oconee crash

An SUV and a pickup truck collided, accounts indicate head-on, in a late afternoon crash yesterday in northern Oconee County on SC 130, near the water bottling plant.  According to Salem Fire and Rescue, three of the injured were child-age, and one of them was airlifted out of precaution to an out of county hospital.  Ground transportation carried five others to a Greenville hospital — the pickup driver and two adults and two other children who were in the SUV.  The accident, around 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, required the shutdown of the two-lane highway for about two hours.