South Carolina updates tagged with 'Car Accidents'

Thirty-two students at Harleyville-Ridgeville Elementary School, were headed to see "The Wiz" at Charleston Southern University on Thursday, March 6, 2008, when Dorchester District 4 school bus in which they were riding was involved in a head-on collision. On U.S. Highway 78 near U.S. Highway 178, the school bus collided with a sports utility vehicle driven by a county employee, Joe Simmons,...

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The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported that a Syvlia Kassandra Floyd, a 26-year-old woman from Olanta, South Carolina died after being hit by a car on Interstate 26 between Ridgeville and Harleyville. Apparently, Ms. Floyd's car had broken down in the right-hand lane of I-26 and she was trying to flad down traffic to let others know that the her disabled vehicle was in this lane of traffic...

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On Monday, November 26, 2007, around 4:20 a.m., three men were driving east in a Jeep Liberty near Mullins, South Carolina, when it drove off the road and then caught fire. All three men died in the fiery crash. The men were so badly burned, they will not be able to be identified until autopsies have been performed although it is thought that they were all from Mullins, South Carolina. The...

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After a 2 1/2 week trial, a jury in Jefferson County, Texas awarded around $10.9 million to the family of a woman killed when her truck was hit by a train at a Louisiana railroad crossing. The money will be used to help the family take care of the woman's young daughter who was paralyzed from the chest down as a result of the crash.In July 2005, the decedent was traveling in a truck with her...

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On Friday, September 28, 2007, a driver and passenger were killed around 10:30 a.m. when the SUV they were in plunged off a bridge along I-526 into the mud below. One was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken by the United States Coast Guard helicopter to the Medical University of South Carolina but was determined to be dead upon arrival. Both individuals were belted. A witness...

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On August 19, 2007, the Colleton County Fire-Rescue in South Carolina responded to a two-vehicle accident on I-95 at the 59-mile marker. A northbound tractor-trailer, which was traveling at a high rate of speed through a work zone, struck a painting truck in the rear end. This was after the same tractor trailer nearly sideswiped a State Trooper. Despite being equipped with an impact cusion, the...

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A deputy in Newberry, South Carolina, was assisting with a fatal multiple car accident on I-26, that resulted in the death of an eleven year old boy. Deputy Chris Keller responded to the scene of the fatal car accident in order to direct traffic around the accident locale. Deputy Keller was directing traffic when he was approached by an oncoming vehicle at which time he was forced to jump out...

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On Friday, July 13, 2007, around rush hour traffic, there was a terrible car accident on the northbound lanes of Interstate 526 or the Mark Clark Expressway at the North Rhett on-ramp. A total of eight vehicles were involved. All the lanes on that portion of Interstate 526 were closed for nearly 10 hours after the accident. While the exact cause of the accident may not be known for weeks, it...

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Joseph Tuski, a former construction worker, was left a quadriplegic, after being struck by a drunken driver and thrown more than 100 feet. In addition to bringing a lawsuit against the drunken driver, Mr. Tuski appropriately brought a lawsuit against the tavern that served alcohol to the drunk driver to such a point as to make him intoxicated even after he was obviously intoxicated. On January...

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While a number of states have passed laws forbidding drivers from using their cell phones while driving, some states are trying to go a step further, by enacting driver distraction laws. Lawmakers in a dozen states are trying to ban drivers from using video games, computers and fax machines in cars in a new wave of driver-distraction legislation. Since January, states including Texas, New York...

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For many years now, automobile manufacturers have been installing a device commonly known as a "black box" into many of their vehicles. The black boxes were initially installed with the stated purpose of gathering data to optimize vehicle performance but now are more commonly used for the purpose of gathering information post-accident. Many consumer advocate groups are concerned about the use...

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As an attorney that handles personal injury cases, I am frequently asked by clients that have been injured in a motor vehicle accident what kind of automobile insurance they should purchase and how much. Most of the time they are prompted to ask because the other driver that injured them has minimum limits that are insufficient to cover their injuries.The first issue that should be addressed is...

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A Rocky Mount Police Officer that has been with the force for one year was seriously hurt in a car accident. The accident occured on Sunday morning as he was responding to a call for a robbery in progress. His police cruiser hit an SUV at Woodrull and Hunter Hill roads. The Rocky Mount Fire Department and Nash County EMS also responded to the accident. Officials helped remove Silver - who...

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A man died, on Saturday, from injuries he sustained in a head-on car crash.The car accident occurred at 3pm in Anderson County. Investigators say, the car turned left onto McGee Street and collided head-on into a car driven by a 54-year-old man. The man declined going to the hospital when asked how he felt.He called his wife to come pick him up at the accident site. Soon after, the man started...

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The S.C. Highway Patrol has concluded, a Columbia police officer involved in a February car crash that killed two police horses, had fallen asleep at the wheel.On February 8, the Officer was traveling in his Chevy pickup truck towing a horse trailer on his way to the department's stable, when his pickup drifted onto the right shoulder crashing into a pine tree.The officer was trapped inside the...

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