A woman from Sun City Hilton Head was found dead after her car veered off S.C. 170 (Okatie Highway) and struck a tree earlier this month, officials say.
Dorothy Barretta, 60, was pronounced dead the morning of March 21 at the scene of the crash. It happened at the intersection of S.C. 170 and Okatie Maintenance Yard, about a half-mile south of the entrance to the gated community on Del Webb Boulevard.
Bluffton police initially labeled the incident as a cardiac arrest, although Beaufort County Chief Deputy Coroner Shane Bowers said Barretta’s cause of death would be difficult to determine. She suffered a fatal amount of blunt force trauma in the collision with the woodline, he said…