Young woman perishes in car wreck near Salem

A Thursday evening car accident on a rural Oconee County state road took the life of a Seneca woman.  Amber Leigh Parker was 23 years old.  Coroner Addis says Parker died at the scene—the Burnt Tanyard Road near the Whitmire Church Road.  State trooper Brandon Bolt said the Ford sedan went left of center, over-corrected, ran off the right side of the road, hit a tree, a utility box, a roadside sign, and overturned.  There were no other occupants in the car. The accident was reported at 6:12 pm.