From staff reports
On Thursday afternoon, May 18, the Burton Fire District and Beaufort County EMS responded to two separate three-vehicle collisions with injuries within yards of each other in less than two hours.
Burton firefighters and county EMS responded to the first vehicle collision at 4:41 p.m. on Trask Parkway and Self-Storage Road. Emergency crews arrived on scene to a three-vehicle collision between two SUVs and a pickup truck, all with minor damages. All occupants appeared to have sustained minor injuries.
Just yards away, at 6:36 p.m., Burton firefighters and EMS, along with the MCAS Fire Department, responded to another three-vehicle collision, this time yards away at the intersection of Trask
Parkway and Laurel Bay Road. Initial reports were that one vehicle was on fire.
Emergency crews arrived on scene to three-vehicles, a pickup truck and two passenger vehicles. One passenger vehicle had sustained heavy damages and had fire coming from the engine compartment. An off-duty Burton firefighter who witnessed the collision and began providing aid was able to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher.
Occupants from the vehicles were treated with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries. The intersection was closed while emergency crews operated delaying traffic for approximately 45 minutes.
This is the fifth vehicle collision this year at the Trask Parkway and Laurel Bay Road intersection, two
of which resulted in injuries.
