By Delayna Earley
The Island News
A Georgia woman was killed and three of her passengers were sent to the hospital with injuries after her sedan struck a pickup truck that was turning off of S.C. Highway 170 (Okatie Highway) on Saturday evening.
Brittney Shuler, 36, of Hinesville, Ga., was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on June 7, at around 5:30 p.m., according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office.
Shuler was driving a 2008 Ford sedan and was carrying three passengers while traveling northeast on S.C. 170 toward Beaufort when her car struck a 2022 Ford pickup truck as the truck attempted to turn left onto Callawassie Drive from the opposite lane of the highway, per the verbal report submitted by Master Trooper William Bennett with South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP).
Shuler was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash by first responders, and her three passengers were taken to Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Ga., for treatment.
The driver of the truck was uninjured, Bennett said.
Both eastbound lanes of S.C. 170 were closed Saturday while investigators and first responders were at the scene and the accident remains under investigation by S.C. Highway Patrol.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
