Motorists are being asked to find another route around a busy South Shore highway after a fatal crash early Monday morning. According to Massachusetts State Police, the crash occurred at approximately 5 a.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation wrote on social media Monday morning that the southbound side of the highway was closed at Exit 27.

A serious crash has shut down a portion of Route 3 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on Monday morning. Duxbury fire said in a social media post around 5:40 a.m. that they were working an accident on Route 3 south in the area of the Franklin Street overpass.