5K LMA student in Columbia hospital

A five-year-old Sumter girl is in a Columbia hospital in serious condition following a two-vehicle accident at 5:10 p.m. Jan. 27.

Addison Taylor, a 5K student at Laurence Manning Academy, was a restrained passenger in a 1989 GMC truck driven by her father, George Taylor, 37, also of Sumter.

The vehicle driven by Taylor was traveling west on U.S. 76 when he turned left into a private driveway in front of a log truck driven by Walter Ardis, 61, of Sumter that was traveling east on U.S. 76, according to Lance Cpl. Judd Jones of the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Taylor who was not wearing a seat beat and his daughter were transported to Tuomey Regional Medical Center. The youngster was later transported to Palmetto Richland in Columbia in serious condition. Her father was treated for non-life threatening injuries at Tuomey, according to the trooper.

Ardis who was wearing a seat belt was not injured in the wreck.

Jones said no charges had been filed in the wreck as of Saturday morning. The wreck remains under investigation.