Father of teen killed in Travelers Rest crash arrested in connection with the wreck

The State Law Enforcement Division has charged the father of a teen who died in an October crash with a variety of crimes related to that wreck.

Nicholas Jimmy Adams, whose only address was listed as Pickens County, was charged with two counts of being a party to a crime - felony DUI resulting in death and great bodily injuries, three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, two counts of providing beer or wine to a minor, and one count of unlawful neglect of a child as legal custodian, according to arrest warrants.

The charges stem from the Oct. 13 wreck that killed Jessica Faye Adaline Adams, Nicholas Adams’ 17-year-old daughter, and injured three others.

Madison Michelle Bagwell, 19, was previously charged with DUI resulting in death, two counts of DUI with great bodily injury, child endangerment and possession of marijuana related to that crash, authorities said.

Bagwell, Jessica Adams and the other three passengers had been at the Travelers Rest Speedway during a racing event the day of the crash.

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The Jeep Cherokee Bagwell was driving while leaving the speedway veered off of U.S. 25 and overturned, striking a guardrail.

Jessica Adams, a Pickens County High School senior, died in a hospital a few hours after the crash. Two 13-year-olds and a 20-year-old, who were also passengers in the car, were hospitalized.

Bagwell was later issued additional misdemeanor charges of open container and possession of alcohol by a minor, records showed.

She was was already facing a DUI charge and out on bond in an unrelated case out of Pickens County from Nov. 9, 2017, court records show. She was charged with DUI first offense, according to the ticket, and was released on a $2,000 personal recognizance bond while awaiting a jury trial.

According to warrants issued Thursday, it’s alleged that on Oct. 13 Nicholas Adams “did aid/and or abet Madison Michelle Bagwell in the commission of the crime of DUI/Felony driving under the influence, death results, in that Adams did individually, willfully and knowingly purchase, disburse and provide alcoholic beverages to Bagwell and allowed her to operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol."

Warrants also allege that Nicholas Adams knowingly caused two 13-year-old minors to place themselves in a situation where they had no other choice but to willfully injure or endanger their morals or the health or the morals or health of others as a result of providing alcoholic beverages to Bagwell.

Adams is being held in the Greenville County Detention Center.

The investigation, which is continuing, was aided by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, the South Carolina Highway Patrol, and the Pickens County Department of Social Services, Richardson said.