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Elderly man dead; wife listed in critical Ellis' wife of more than 50 years, Martha Lee Ellis, 77, was taken to Beaufort Memorial Hospital and then flown to Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, where she was in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. The passenger side of the four-door Oldsmobile driven by Martha Ellis was crushed by the force of the collision. Claude Ellis was sitting in the car's passenger seat at the time of the crash. The driver of the second car, Delsondra Allen of Port Royal, said she plowed her Honda into the passenger-side door of the Oldsmobile, spinning both vehicles. Allen's fiance, Westly Daniels of Beaufort, was in the passenger seat of the Honda. Visibly shaken while sitting on the sidewalk near the wrecked vehicles, Allen said she and Daniels weren't hurt. Allen said the crash was mostly a blur, but recalled the driver of the Oldsmobile taking a left turn off S.C. 170 onto Burton Hill Road. The Oldsmobile stopped in the middle of the turn, Allen said, and she didn't have time to stop her car headed south on S.C. 170. Allen and Westly both said they were wearing their seat belts at the time of crash. Beaufort Police Sgt. Rob Carson, who investigated the wreck, said Allen's car did smash into Ellis' at the intersection but wouldn't confirm that the Oldsmobile had stopped in the middle of its turn. Authorities are continuing to investigate the wreck. Allen and Daniels were later taken to Naval Hospital Beaufort, Carson said Martha Ellis was wearing her seat belt but it was unclear if Claude Ellis was wearing a seat belt at the time of wreck, Copeland said. Earlier this year, the speed limit on the stretch of S.C. 170 where the crash occurred was lowered from 50 mph to 45 mph. Authorities don't know if speed was a factor in the crash, which claimed the fifth life this year on S.C. 170.
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