Emergency personnel responded about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to a two-vehicle head-on crash on Bluff Road between Bottom and Steppig roads in Columbia.

One of the vehicles caught fire following the collision, which the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department described as “very serious.”

Bluff Road is closed to traffic in that area as public safety responders work the crash scene, and police said it is expected to be closed “for an extended period of time.”

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