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An 87-year-old Lancaster woman was involved in an unusual one-vehicle wreck Wednesday morning after she placed mail in the outside post office drop box.

Virginia Flowers was leaving the Lancaster Post Office about 9:30 a.m. in her 1991 Chevrolet Corsica. She crossed Leroy Street to First Palmetto Savings Bank.

She drove through the bank's parking lot, over the wall separating the sidewalk and landed in the middle of Main Street. She then drove into a house across the street, according to Anthony James, who witnessed the accident.

Tammy Roberts, who worked nearly 30 years at Springs' Grace Complex, never thought she'd see the day when she had to look for another job.

She loved her role as an administrative clerk and thought her job would be around long after she retired. But for Roberts and hundreds of others, that's not the case.

Springs Global, which has been phasing out jobs for years, announced this summer that it was shutting down the Grace Finishing and Grace Fabrication operations in Lancaster and the H.W. Close plant in Fort Lawn and relocating to Brazil.

INDIAN LAND – A Monroe man was killed in a head-on collision on S.C. 160 on Sunday.

David Franklin Hobbs Sr., 62, died of abdominal bleeding about 4 p.m. at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, said Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris.

His wife, Bonnie Hobbs, 62, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The couple had to be extricated from their 2006 Chevrolet pickup, said S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Ron Johnson.

A Charlotte firm has been hired by Lancaster County to look into the noise generated by the Blue Dot concrete plant in Indian Land.

Dr. Noral Stewart of Stewart Acoustical Consultants will be doing the work for the county at a cost of about $17,000, County Administrator Steve Willis said.

Residents of the Brookchase neighborhood have been complaining over the last several months about excessive noise coming from the concrete plant, which is behind the back yards of Cole Creek Drive residents. Residents say the plant also generates a large amount of dangerous dust.