Deadly SC Cement Truck Crash Kills Two People

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Deadly SC Cement Truck Crash Kills Two People

Story Published: May 13, 2008 at 11:24 AM EDT

Story Updated: May 14, 2008 at 3:43 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -Officials have released the names of two
North Charleston residents killed in a wreck when their car was
partially filled with cement after it collided with a truck on
Interstate 26.

Coroner Rae Wooten told The Charleston Post and Courier that
42-year-old Christina Akabidavis and her 15-year-old daughter,
Marcushire, died in the crash Monday afternoon.

Highway Patrol Corporal Paul Brouthers says the women were in
the front seat of a car that abruptly changed lanes in front of the
cement truck.

Brouthers says the truck couldn't stop and landed on top of the car.

Pete Rogers with the Charleston Volunteer Rescue Squad says cement then started to fill the car and it took 20 rescuers with
shovels to dig out the women, who then had to be cut from the car.

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