Drayton Black Passed Away | Cause Of Death:
Drayton Black died January 27, 2020 following severe motor accident that happened on Long Road off of U.S. 378 (Columbia Highway), in Saluda County, said police.
Drayton Black passed away Monday at about 10:15 p.m in accident. He passed on at the age of 17, said report.
Black was traveling in a truck, when for reasons unveiled, he lost control of the vehicle, veered off the roadway and collided with a tree, Black was severely injured and unmovable at the scene of accident, he was pronounced dead at the spot, said police.
Drayton was a senior student at Saluda High School.
Friends and families of the deceased were devastated by the news of his death
Grace Moore, a friend to the deceased was shocked by the news in a statement below:
“I was headed to Drayton’s house to see his family and I saw everyone here and decided to stop,” It made it a little more real I guess because I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. I still can’t.”
“You don’t believe it and you don’t want to believe it,” Kelby Rogers, a friend of the victim, said. “And then you get out here and you look at it and you start finding pieces of their lives kind of scattered, and you’re like maybe it is real.”
The factors leading to the crash remains under investigation.