An autopsy was conducted Friday on the body of a Jonesville man who was a patient being transported in an ambulance that wrecked Sunday on the Kelly Road.

Union County Deputy Coroner Johnny Fallaw said Donald Richard “Red” Garner, 50, of 341 Deer Haven Road died Thursday morning in Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Fallaw said the autopsy was conducted at Newberry County Memorial Hospital and results likely will not be available until Monday.

The wreck occurred around 10:20 a.m. about four miles north of Union. Union County EMS was transporting Garner to the hospital “Code 3” — meaning the lights and siren on the ambulance were activated.

Lance Cpl. Bryan McDougald of the Highway Patrol said Regina Mathis, 28, of Pacolet Mills, was driving the 2000 Ford ambulance. She told officers she rounded a curve and met some type of brown SUV that had crossed the yellow line and was in her lane of traffic.

McDougald said Ms. Mathis swerved right to avoid the vehicle, and lost control of the ambulance, which left the road and struck a tree.

The driver of the SUV left the scene and has not been located.

Union County EMS Director Ronnie Roberson said Ms. Mathis fractured a wrist and was bruised in the wreck. She was treated at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and released without being admitted.

McDougald said Ms. Mathis was not wearing a seat belt when the ambulance wrecked. She had to be extricated from the ambulance by rescue workers.

Rick Waldrop, the paramedic who was tending to Garner in the back of the ambulance, broke a femur. Roberson said Waldrop underwent surgery Sunday. He since has been discharged from the hospital.

Roberson said he was unsure of the medical reason for the ambulance being dispatched to Garner.

At the time of the accident, authorities said Garner was thought not to have been injured. He was taken to Wallace Thomson Hospital where he was treated in the intensive care unit and later was transferred to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Roberson said the ambulance was a total loss.

“That’s material and it can be replaced,” he said.

McDougald said anyone with information about the SUV is asked to call the Highway Patrol at 1-800-768-1504. (*HP on a cell phone) or Union County 911.