West Union man dies after head-on collision

The office of Anderson County coroner has identified an elderly West Union man the fatal victim in a head-on crash yesterday afternoon at Pendleton.  Joseph E. Stewart, Jr., died at 4:50 pm at Prisma Health, Greenville after being life-flighted and treated at the scene of the two-vehicle accident near Tri-County Technical College.  The coroner’s office gave the following account:  “The investigation indicates that the decedent was driving his vehicle traveling east on Highway 76 in Pendleton and apparently traveled across the median and struck another vehicle that was traveling west.  The preliminary investigation indicates that the decedent may have possibly suffered a medical event resulting in the collision.”