Weeks after crash, candidate who ousted Mark Sanford speaks

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State Rep. Katie Arrington, a Republican candidate for Congress, is escorted by her husband Rob Arrington before she speaks to the media Friday, July 6, 2018, at the MUSC campus in Charleston, S.C. Arrington, 47, was a passenger in a car that was hit head-on by a wrong-way driver June 22 on U.S. Highway 17 near Charleston. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)

A South Carolina Republican who ousted U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford is speaking with reporters for the first time since she was severely injured in a car wreck last month.

A spokesman for 47-year-old Katie Arrington says the state representative plans to hold a news conference Friday at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

Arrington was a passenger in a car that was hit head-on by a wrong-way driver June 22 on U.S. Highway 17 near Charleston. The woman who was driving Arrington, Jacqueline Goff, was also critically injured. The other driver, 69-year-old Helen White, was killed.

Arrington beat Sanford in South Carolina’s June 12 GOP primary. Democratic nominee Joe Cunningham suspended campaign activities for a few days following the crash and wished Arrington a full recovery.

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