John Dew was born February 12, 1953 and died in a car accident October 20, 1989.
He is buried in Columbia SC.
From the Aiken Standard:
John Wesley Dew
Collision Claims 2 On U.S. 1
Staff Writer
A head-on collision on US. 1 north of Aiken claimed the lives of two men Friday afternoon. The accident, which occurred around 3:15 p.m. 2 miles from Aiken, killed Billy Paul Finley, 55, Chesterfield St., Aiken, and John Wesley Dew, 36, West Columbia, said Aiken County Coroner Sue Townsend.
Finley was traveling south on U.S. I in his 1981 Chevrolet Citation and Dew was traveling north in his 1985 Ford Ltd. when one of the cars crossed the center line on a curve south of the Aiken Municipal Airport, said Sgt. Julian Thigpen of the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Sgt. Thigpen declined to reveal which motorist was at fault until the investigation is completed.
“ I do not suspect alcohol was involved,” Mrs. Townsend said.
The accident, which destroyed both cars, tied up afternoon traffic on the roadway for over two hours,Sgt. Thigpen said. The jaws-of-life had to by used by firemen to pry the two bodies from the tangled wreckage. Wreckers were called in to clear the road for motorists.
Despite the destruction of Friday’s crash, Sgt. Thigpen said that the curve does not have a history offatal accidents. He said that a fatal accident has not occurred on that section of the road for the past 27 years.
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