By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter

jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — A Greenville man was killed in a single-vehicle accident Monday morning.

Pickens County coroner Kandy Kelley identified the victim as Warren Kyle Rice, 47, of Donaldson Street in Greenville.

According to Lance Cpl. David Jones with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 2:50 a.m. on Prince Perry Road in Easley.

Rice was traveling north on Prince Perry Road when his 1999 Honda Accord went off the left side of the roadway, striking a ditch and then a tree, Jones said.

Rice was entrapped in the vehicle, Jones said.

Kelley said Rice was not wearing a seatbelt. He was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt-force trauma.

The Highway Patrol is still investigating the accident.