The sister of a woman who was killed last year when a Columbia-Richland Fire Department engine responding to a call struck her vehicle, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the city of Columbia, Richland County, the fire department and the engine’s driver of negligence and recklessness.
Carolyn Virginia Collins, 64, was killed July 12, 2025, after a fire truck driving north in a southbound lane struck her vehicle as she was attempting to make a left-hand turn from a Two Notch Road median.
Collins’ sister, Diana Sparrow, filed the lawsuit June 1 in Richland County Circuit court. She is being represented by attorney Shaquana Cuttino.
What happened?
A lightning strike on the evening of July 12, 2025, engulfed one home in flames and damaged two others in a neighborhood on Bradford Ridge Lane in northeast Columbia…