Interstate 26 runs approximately 220 miles from I-40 in Asheville, North Carolina southeast through Spartanburg, Columbia, and the South Carolina Lowcountry to Charleston on the coast. It is a major freight corridor connecting the Southeast’s interior to the Port of Charleston — one of the busiest container ports on the East Coast — and carries substantial commercial vehicle traffic year-round.
Between 2000 and 2010, I-26 in South Carolina recorded 286 accidents that claimed 325 lives — a fatality rate that placed it among the most dangerous interstates in the Southeast. The causes were specific, structural, and in many cases preventable.
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