From staff reports
Friday, Sept. 19 marked the fifth anniversary of one of Beaufort County’s most horrendous traffic accidents — a three-car collision on the McTeer Bridge that took the lives of four family members.
Tikia Lashay Doe, 36, who was eight months pregnant at the time of the accident, and her three young sons — Jashawn Hawkins, 16; Alonzo Houston, 6; and Cameron Perry, 3 — died on the scene.
Two Beaufort men, Terry Campbell Jr., age 19 at the time of the accident, and Phillip Roberts, 40, were arrested in January 2021 and charged with five counts of reckless vehicular homicide. The two, who were released on bond, are still awaiting trial.
Both drivers were found to be traveling at high rates of speed – Campbell at 86 miles per hour and Roberts at 80 miles per hour – according to incident reports made on the date of the collision. The vehicles had been traveling across the bridge toward Lady’s Island when the crash occurred.
The Doe family’s Dodge Caravan, was driven by the father of the family, who survived the crash, which occurred when the van flipped and went over the side of the bridge and plummeted into the Beaufort River below.
Emergency responders attempted to rescue those trapped in the submerged vehicle but were unsuccessful.
