AIKEN COUNTY (WJBF) – The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a double fatality.

The crash happened Friday morning, around 5:30 a.m. on I-20 at mile-marker 33.

Officials say the 18-wheeler was traveling eastbound when it left the roadway and hit several trees.

The driver and passenger, 41-year-olds Brian D. McGee and Brandin L. Greear of Missouri, were pronounced dead on the scene.

Their bodies with be autopsied in Newberry, South Carolina Saturday.