---
title: "Berea Driver, 66, Killed in Multi-Vehicle Wreck on White Horse Road"
url: https://www.herespartanburg.com/berea-howard-cantrell-white-horse-road-fatal-crash/
date: 2026-05-13T16:24:35-04:00
modified: 2026-05-13T16:24:36-04:00
author: "R. Darnell Rivera"
categories: ["Crime", "Traffic"]
site: "HERESpartanburg"
attribution: "HERESpartanburg"
---

# Berea Driver, 66, Killed in Multi-Vehicle Wreck on White Horse Road

*Source: [HERESpartanburg](https://www.herespartanburg.com/berea-howard-cantrell-white-horse-road-fatal-crash/) — May 13, 2026 by R. Darnell Rivera*

A 66-year-old driver was killed Tuesday evening when his SUV crossed multiple lanes on White Horse Road in Berea, overturned several times, and slammed into a pickup truck stopped at a stop sign on Old White Horse Road, according to state troopers and the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.

Regional outlets covering the wreck reported that the Greenville County Coroner’s Office was called to the intersection of White Horse Road and Old White Horse Road around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday for what investigators described as a multi-vehicle crash. The coroner’s office said the driver of the Toyota Sequoia involved in the wreck was pronounced dead on scene. A separate confirmation from the coroner’s office on Wednesday morning identified the victim as 66-year-old Howard Lorenzo Cantrell of the Berea area, and indicated that the manner of death has been ruled accidental.

According to the preliminary collision report released by state troopers, Cantrell was traveling southbound on White Horse Road when the Toyota Sequoia he was driving lost control, crossed multiple lanes of travel, overturned several times, and struck a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck stopped at a stop sign on Old White Horse Road. The driver of the Chevrolet, who was waiting to turn, was not reported as a fatality in either of the two outlets covering the wreck. Troopers have not yet released information on contributing factors such as speed, mechanical failure, or medical event.

## The intersection

The crash site sits on the western edge of Greenville County in the Berea community, less than 25 miles down the [I-85](/traffic-spartanburg-sc/) corridor from [Spartanburg County](/). White Horse Road (S.C. 25) is one of the busiest non-interstate north-south corridors in the Upstate, carrying commuters between Travelers Rest, Berea and Greenville’s west side. Old White Horse Road parallels the modern alignment as a residential cut-through; the intersection has stop-sign control on the side street, with through traffic on White Horse Road.

Tuesday evening’s crash drew Greenville County EMS, the Berea Fire Department and state troopers to the scene. The coroner’s office said its investigators were called to the intersection at approximately 5:20 p.m., which lines up with the peak afternoon commute window on the corridor. The roadway was partially blocked during the response, but the two outlets covering the wreck did not report how long lanes remained closed.

## Why this hits the Upstate radar

Spartanburg County drivers heading into Greenville along the I-85 / U.S. 29 / S.C. 25 web routinely pass through this corridor. Berea is a recognized unincorporated community in Greenville County’s west side, sitting between Travelers Rest to the north and the city of Greenville to the south. White Horse Road has been on SCDOT’s list of higher-volume non-interstate Upstate routes for years, and fatal collisions on its surface streets carry over to the same regional safety conversation as I-85 corridor wrecks the Spartanburg market follows.

The state highway patrol’s Troop 3 covers Greenville and Spartanburg counties out of the same dispatch network. Coverage from regional newsrooms noted the manner of death was officially ruled accidental by the Greenville County Coroner’s Office, which closes the death-investigation question even as the trooper-led collision investigation continues into the mechanics of how the Sequoia lost control.

## Latest fatality count on the corridor

Tuesday’s wreck is at least the second fatal collision on the broader Upstate corridor system this week. The HERE Spartanburg traffic desk last week tracked a separate fatal crash on I-85 South in Spartanburg County in which a driver was killed after striking an illegally parked tractor-trailer (post 48430, May 6). That crash involved a stationary commercial vehicle on the interstate shoulder; Tuesday’s Berea wreck appears to involve a single-vehicle loss of control that then collided with a properly stopped pickup at a controlled intersection. The two patterns are different, but they land in the same regional fatality column for SCDOT’s 2026 Upstate roadway-death tally.

Troopers told regional outlets that they had not released additional information as of Tuesday night. A separate Wednesday-morning update from the coroner’s office added the victim’s name and the accidental-manner ruling. The HERE Spartanburg traffic desk will track the trooper-led collision report when it becomes available through the SC Department of Public Safety’s records portal.

## If you’re driving the corridor

White Horse Road’s mix of high-speed through traffic and stop-controlled side-street intersections has been a recurring item at Greenville County roadway-safety meetings. SCDOT’s most recent Upstate corridor study flagged the S.C. 25 surface route for review of intersection geometry between Berea and the Greenville city limits. The Cantrell crash does not change that schedule, but it adds to the case file the state’s transportation agency is building on rural-arterial intersection conflicts in the western Upstate.