Teen killed on road named in dad's memory

WELLFORD, S.C. — Authorities in South Carolina said a teenager was killed in a wreck on a stretch of highway named in memory of his father, a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.


Eighteen-year-old Aaron Shawn Hill was killed Thursday morning on Highway 129 in Wellford, the state's highway patrol said.

The stretch of road where Hill died is named for his father, U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Shawn Hill, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008 when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb.

Dead at the scene
The high school senior was pronounced dead at the scene Thursday. Two other people injured in the wreck were brought to area hospitals.

The Highway Patrol says Hill was driving a Honda that was hit head-on when a Chevrolet pickup crossed the center line.