District responds to student hit by truck while working [Video]

The Pickens County School District has released information about a student who was hit by a truck while working at a grocery store. Ayden Parlier, a rising junior at Pickens High School, was injured and hospitalized on Monday. Just before 3 p.m. on Highway 178, the teen was working at the Ingles store and, while going after the cart, “was hit by a truck in the middle of the road near Wendy’s,” Pickens Police Chief Randal Beach said. Parlier was airlifted to Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital with injuries that include rib fractures.The mother of the teen sent WYFF News 4 a message on Tuesday morning and said her son, Ayden Parlier, is awake and doing well. The School District of Pickens County said it is immensely grateful to the emergency responders and medical professionals who are caring for Parlier. “Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family …