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Driver in fatal crash with SC ambulance charged with DUI

Troopers say man was driving drunk and collided with a Bamberg County ambulance carrying a mother and her newborn child

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ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S.C. — The driver of a car that hit an ambulance early Sunday morning killing one and sending six people to the hospital has been charged with DUI.

Zachary Thomas, 23, of Orangeburg is charged with Felony DUI. Troopers say he was driving drunk and collided with a Bamberg County ambulance carrying a mother and her newborn child.

The wreck happened around 7:30 a.m. on Magnolia Street at Stilton Road, about one mile north of Orangeburg. A passenger in the Dodge, 23-year-old Christopher Harrison, died in the wreck.

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