Olanta woman killed in wreck

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An Olanta woman was killed late Saturday afternoon after a vehicle wreck in Florence County. Katherine Jordan Floyd, 81, of Olanta, died at McLeod Regional Medical Center after the wreck, which happened about 5:02 p.m. Saturday at North Floyd and North Bethel roads in the Olanta area near the Florence-Clarendon line. Lance Cpl. David Jones with the S.C. Highway Patrol said a 2007 Nissan truck went off the side of the road and struck a ditch, and Floyd was a passenger in that truck. The driver was taken by EMS to McLeod Regional Medical Center with serious injuries.