Traffic

On a given day, approximately 13,500 vehicles travel along this portion of US 17. Every effort is being made to minimize traffic delays during construction.

There will be a time when new construction is completed and traffic will need to be switched onto the new roadway. These switches allow traffic to continue flowing while reconstruction occurs on the old roadway. Notice of traffic switches will be announced through local media, through the Beaufort County and Colleton County traffic announcements, and posted on this website.

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Prior to this widening project, US 17 ACE Basin between Gardens Corner and Jacksonboro was recognized as one of the nation’s most deadly highways in a 2005 assessment. Sadly, 33 fatalities occurred on this section of the two-lane road between the years of 1997 and February 2005.

Some of these deaths have been marked by friends and families with white crosses within the Right of Way along the roadway. Widening plans for US 17 ACE Basin Segment 1 include the construction of safer, wider shoulders and embankments along either side of the roadway.

If you have information or questions about these memorials, please contact Chris Hernandez, SCDOT Project Manager at (888) 692-9986 or through this site’s contact page.
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