All Hwy 170 lanes open again after tree falls on car, power lines near county line

By Kate Hidalgo Bellows

Updated May 1, 2021 3:32 PM

All lanes of U.S. 170 are open again after a tree fell on a passing car and downed power lines near the Jasper-Beaufort County line, Bluffton Police officials announced around 3:30 p.m Saturday.

No one in the car was injured, Bluffton Police Sgt. Bill Ferrelli said. The tree has been removed, and the power lines are back up.

According to Ferrelli, some nearby did lose power, but it should be back now.

This story was originally published May 1, 2021 at 12:33 PM.

Kate Hidalgo Bellows

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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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