An South Carolina news photographer who was on Interstate 85 Monday afternoon to shoot video of an overturned tractor-trailer truck was killed in a hit-and-run crash. Joe Loy, an assignment editor at Fox Carolina news, was sent to the scene to shoot video of the overturned lumber truck that had dumped its load on the southbound lanes of I-85 near mile marker 70.
While Loy was out of his news vehicle, a red pickup truck cut off a white van causing it to swerve into Loy, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Troopers said that the white van stopped, but the red pickup truck kept going.
Loy, who had been with Fox Carolina since it went on the air in 1999, was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after the crash.
Besides being a respected news professional, Loy was a husband and a father. He was also a volunteer firefighter.