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Funeral arrangements set for high school coach

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(Source: Konstantin Vengerowsky at the ClarendonCitizen.com) (Source: Konstantin Vengerowsky at the ClarendonCitizen.com)

SUMTER COUNTY, SC (WIS) - The funeral is Wednesday for a high school coach killed in a crash Thursday near Sumter.

Ruth Coard of Summerton will be remembered with a service Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Scott's Branch High School Gym, where she was the girls' basketball coach.

Coard and her son were riding in their pickup truck on U.S. 378 near Highway 763 around 8:10 p.m. Thursday night when they hit a horse wandering in the middle of the road.

Bullock said the collision sent the horse through the front windshield. According to the Highway Patrol, the 2008 Chevy veered off the road and hit a tree.

Coard died at the scene. Troopers said she was not wearing a seatbelt. Her son is expected to be okay.

Coard was the head girl's basketball coach at Scott's Branch High School in Clarendon County. "Ms. Cookie" as she was known throughout the Clarendon One School District also served as the district's transportation director.

She had been the school's head basketball coach for four seasons. Staffers at the district said "Our hearts are broken."

The Highway Patrol is investigating.

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