1 killed, multiple injured in trio of wrecks Saturday on the same Beaufort road

Three wrecks Saturday along Robert Smalls Parkway in Beaufort killed one person and sent five others to the hospital.

The last — which closed the roadway at the Parris Island Gateway intersection for well over an hour starting just after 4 p.m. — was the fatal crash, according Burton Fire District spokesman Dan Byrne.

When district firefighters arrived on the scene, two people were trapped in one of the vehicles, he said.

“Firefighters were able to rescue the occupants,” according to a Saturday evening news release from the fire district. “Two people were transported to the hospital with critical injuries and a third was pronounced dead on the scene.”

As of Saturday night, the the identity of the deceased victim had yet to be released.

The accidents on Robert Smalls Parkway started around 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

“Burton firefighters arrived to a two vehicle accident resulting in a female and two children being transported to the hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries,” the district release said.

Traffic along a portion of the road was stopped for about 45 minutes.

Soon after that accident, another happened just west of the intersection of Parris Island Gateway.

“Firefighters responded from the first accident to the second where they found three motor vehicles involved, including a tow truck that was responding to the first accident,” the release said.

This accident resulted in minor injuries but no one was hospitalized.

This story was originally published December 23, 2017 at 2:05 PM with the headline "1 killed, multiple injured in trio of wrecks Saturday on the same Beaufort road."