AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WJBF) – Shortly after midnight Saturday, the Aiken County Coroner’s Office was dispatched to the intersection of Powell Pond Road and Scotch Lane to investigate the death of an Aiken man following a golf cart accident.

The driver of an EZ-GO golf cart was going west on Powell Pond Road, when the golf cart went off the left side of the road, and crashed into a ditch ejecting the driver.

The driver of the golf cart, identified as 86-year-old Ronald New, was pronounced deceased on the scene at 1:10 a.m. from blunt force injuries.

The coroner’s office along with South Carolina Highway Patrol are continuing with the investigation.

Toxicology analysis are pending.


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