Crash on SC 170 delays traffic on Lemon Island Bridge near Port Royal Tuesday evening

Update: At 7:46 p.m., the crash had been cleared by emergency crews. One person was killed in the crash, authorities said. For more information, click here.

A two-vehicle collision on the Lemon Island Bridge on S.C. Highway 170 near Port Royal delayed traffic as emergency crews worked to clear the roadway Tuesday evening.

The crash, just south of the Broad River bridge, blocked one westbound lane and all eastbound lanes, according to an alert from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.

Injuries were reported, according to sheriff’s office spokesperson Maj. Bob Bromage, who said deputies and the S.C. Highway Patrol responded to the scene.

Drivers encountered delays, but traffic moved past the site of the crash using the emergency lane headed toward Beaufort and the open westbound lane, according to Bromage.

This story was originally published May 4, 2021 at 5:58 PM.

Lucas Smolcic Larson

The Island Packet

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Lucas Smolcic Larson joined The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette as a projects reporter in 2019, after graduating from Brown University. His work has won Rhode Island and South Carolina Press Association awards for education and investigative reporting. He previously worked as an intern at The Washington Post and the Investigative Reporting Workshop in Washington D.C. Lucas hails from central Pennsylvania and speaks Spanish and Portuguese.