Writer Jonathan Douglas Dowdle ID’d As Pedestrian Fatally Struck Friday In Mauldin SC

MAULDEN, SC. (THECOUNT) — Jonathan Douglas Dowdle, of Gaffney, has been identified as the pedestrian fatally struck in Maulden, South Carolina on Friday night.

Dowdle, 38, was walking on US-276 near Pinehurst Drive when he was struck by a commercial truck around 9:51 p.m., the coroner’s office said on Saturday.

The Greenville County Coroner’s Office says they, along with the Mauldin Police Department, are investigating Dowdle’s death who was struck, and killed by a car Friday night. 

Dowdle was pronounced dead at the scene of multiple blunt force trauma injuries.

His cause and manner of death are pending, awaiting an examination and further information. 

Dowdle was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, has traveled throughout the United States, and currently resides in South Carolina. Previous works have appeared or are appearing in: Hobo Camp Review, 322 Review, The Opiate, The Right Place At The Write Time, Blue Hour Review, Whimperbang, After The pause, Midnight Lane Boutique, Visitant, Adelaide, Blue Moon, Bitchin’ Kitsch and The Big Windows Review, according to MojaveHeart.

Unfinished

Days and hours stretch
Where the body is no more
Than a keepsake
To store, stories incomplete,
Fractures of frayed threads; and we
Always slipping between
The fractures, the broken places,
Leaving silence
To end all the things
We invariably leave
Undone.

Family members started a GoFundMe. 

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Geo quick facts: Mauldin is a city in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 15,224 at the 2000 census, 22,889 in 2010, and an estimated 25,135 in 2015. It is a principal city of the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.