Officials confirmed one death in Monday morning’s crash on U.S. 278 (Fording Island Road) that shut down a portion of the highway in Bluffton for several hours.
The crash happened just before 6:30 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. 278 and John Smith Lane on the westbound lanes of the highway. It involved two pickup trucks, a Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado 1500, according to Eydie Moody, a spokesperson for the Bluffton Police Department.
One person was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead, Moody said. They had not yet been publicly identified by the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office…