A man was killed in a Sunday morning collision on Bluffton Parkway that sent a disabled trailer crashing into him and one other person on the side of the busy roadway.
Waldo Mercado, 51, died of blunt force injuries shortly after the collision. He hailed from Argentina and lived in the Bluffton area as recently as 2024, according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office.
It happened around 10:45 a.m. near the parkway’s entrance to the Heritage Lakes neighborhood, about a mile east of Bluffton town limits. All eastbound lanes were shut down in the vicinity of the crash as emergency crews responded…