In an apparent road rage attack , an unknown suspect reportedly took a hammer to a vacationer’s car after the visitor lost his way on Hilton Head Island over the weekend. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office had not made an arrest as of Tuesday afternoon due to a lack of leads.
Beaufort County deputies were called around 1 p.m. Saturday to the Hilton Head Island Airport, where they met a 48-year-old man from Sevierville, Tennessee. He told police he had gotten lost while driving his 2024 Nissan Armada in the Spanish Wells area and tried to turn around on Spanish Wells Road, making a three-point turn in the gravel parking lot of a warehouse near Humane Way.
After turning around, the man ended up behind a black pickup truck, possibly a Dodge, according to a sheriff’s office incident report. As he waited for the truck to pull forward, the unnamed driver exited the vehicle and began yelling, “appearing very hostile,” he told police. With his windows closed, the man couldn’t hear most of what the man was saying, but after cracking his door open he reportedly heard the driver yell “What is your problem?”