Possible weak tornado, flips car on US 52 in Goose Creek, police say

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCBD) – Two people suffered minor injuries Wednesday after a car flipped on US 52 in Goose Creek during what was likely a weak tornado.

Officials with the Goose Creek Police Department said a Honda Accord was traveling on US 52 when a gust of wind lifted the car and flipped it onto another vehicle.

It happened just before 12:30 p.m. in front of Infinger Furniture near Camelot Drive.

Police say there were two people inside the car and suffered minor injuries. They were taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Berkeley County’s Emergency Manager and the National Weather Service said the car was hit by a brief, weak tornado. No other damage was reported.

One person who works at nearby Stokes Kia described what it was like as the storm moved through the area.

“Jason and I were sitting right here- we were looking out the window. It was raining pretty hard, the top of the tree line out there you could actually see the movement of the trees bending and spiraling … went around the building and went across 52 and picked up a car over there and spun it around and dropped it almost on another car,” recalled John Schinkle.

“All these windows, all these doors opened. The pressure inside the building actually came out. We tried to keep the door shut; Jason was trying to pull the door shut, and he couldn’t do it. And he’s a big guy,” he added.

The incident happened as rain bands from Hurricane Idalia moved across the Lowcountry on Wednesday. The storm is expected to continue lashing the area through early Thursday morning.