Crime & Public Safety

Two taken to hospital after rollover crash in Port Royal, officials say

Two people were injured Saturday morning in a two-car crash at Baynard Road and Savannah Highway in Port Royal, City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department officials said Saturday.

The crash involving an SUV and a sedan occurred around 9:30 a.m. The SUV rolled over five to six times, fire department Battalion Chief Chip Cooler said, and two of its passengers were injured and taken to the hospital.

Both lanes of Savannah Highway headed toward the Broad River Bridge in Beaufort were blocked for nearly an hour Saturday morning, before the crash was cleared around 10:20 a.m., Cooler said.

This story was originally published May 1, 2021 at 11:34 AM.

Kate Hidalgo Bellows
The Island Packet
Kate Hidalgo Bellows covers workforce and livability issues in Beaufort County for The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. A graduate of the University of Virginia and a native of Fairfax City, Virginia, she moved to the Lowcountry to write for The Island Packet as a Report for America corps member in May 2020. She has written for The New York Times, The Patriot-News, and Charlottesville Tomorrow, and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She has won South Carolina Press Association awards for enterprise reporting, in-depth reporting and food writing.
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