Accident in between Hilton Head Bridges cleared after blocking U.S. 278 eastbound traffic

This article has been updated.

A single-vehicle accident in between the Hilton Head Bridges has been cleared after blocking traffic in the right eastbound lane of U.S. 278 for about an hour.

No one was injured in the crash, which occurred when the driver struck a guardrail just before 4 p.m. Saturday. Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Maj. Bob Bromage said the vehicle needed to be towed, its left-side front and rear tires blown out.

Earlier in the afternoon, a cement truck broke down on the Bluffton side of the bridges and blocked the right westbound lane of traffic for several hours. That incident has been cleared as well.

This story was originally published February 20, 2021 at 4:46 PM.

Kate Hidalgo Bellows

The Island Packet

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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.