Three-plus accidents every day

Preliminary data collected by the South Carolina Department of Public Safety show there were more than three Oconee County traffic accidents for each day of 2015.  For the whole year, more than 12-hundred accidents were investigated countywide—including inside the corporate limits of the county’s municipalities.  Most traffic accidents occurred outside the town limits and were investigated by the highway patrol.  Of 1,267 accidents, 923 of them resulted in property damage.  There were 13 fatalities.  In 331 accidents, there were 470 injuries.