Posts tagged vehicle

• Safety Tips for a Happy Halloween

  Kevin Dean | October 11, 2010 12:28 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I’m not afraid of witches, skeletons, or the occasional Power Ranger that knocks on my door for candy but accident statistics are certainly something to scare us all. The National Highway...

• Lexus GX 460 Receives "Don't Buy Safety Risk" From Consumer Reports

  Pete Strom | April 13, 2010 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Consumer Reports is urging car shoppers not to buy the GX 460 due to an increased risk of rollover during a turn, after Consumer Reports discovered a safety issue during its standard emergency...

• Fairfield County Ford Expedition Accident Kills 4-Year-Old, Sends Father and Son to Hospital

  Pete Strom | February 08, 2010 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An accident that occurred on Cook Road in Fairfield County last night took the life of four year old Frank Anthony Brown, Junior, and sent 30-year- old Frank Brown and his two year old son to the...

• Dangerous Aftermarket Wheels On Cars

  Brad Hewett | January 25, 2010 8:23 AM | 1 CommentFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I am currently representing a young lady that was injured in an automobile accident when the aftermarket wheels on the vehicle she was driving collapsed causing her to lose control of the vehicle. A...

• Federal Tax Credit Spurs Golf Cart Purchases

  Pete Strom | October 27, 2009 9:47 PM | 1 CommentColumbia, SC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Keeping up with the neighbors has a whole new meaning in light of Uncle Sam's generous Federal Tax Credit offered to those who purchase a qualifying electric golf cart on or before December 31,...

• South Carolina Man Dies in One-Car Accident

  Jenny Albano | March 30, 2008 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A man from Geogetown County, South Carolina died in a one-car accident on Sunday morning, March 30.George Donnelly, 22, of Andrews was killed about 5:45 a.m. Sunday after his 1998 Camaro struck a ditch and overturned on S.C. 41 one mile South of U.S. 17 A, said a spokesman for the highway patrol. Donnelly who was ejected from the vehicle died of a closed head injury, said Georgetown County...

• Fatal Car Accident on I-77 Kills 2

  Pete Strom | September 13, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  2 Sumter men were killed earlier this week in a fatal car crash on I-77 in Fairfield County. The South Carolina Highway Patrol identified those who died at the scene as 66 year old Charles Ryles Senior and 32-year-old Leonel Garfia Servin.Investigators say the 1999 Chevy truck ran off the road and into the median before overturning.Neither man was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident...

• Church Van Accident on 1-20 Leaves 1 Dead, 1 in ICU

  Pete Strom | September 13, 2007 2:12 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A church passenger van overturned in Lee County in South Carolina Sunday evening leaving 1 dead and 3 hospitalized. According to Highway Patrol Officers, the driver lost control after a rear tire on the van blew out. As the driver tried to steady the van, Investigators say another tire blew out.38-year-old Jacqueline M. Moore of Columbia died Sunday while receiving treatment at Carolina Pines...

• Troopers Have a New Goal: Lower Fatalities

  Pete Strom | September 06, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  South Carolina state troopers are hitting the roads in the Midlands in an effort to reduce fatalities in those areas. Teams of troopers in the area are focusing only on stopping speeders and drunk drivers, in response to rising traffic death rates.During the first six months of 2007, seventy people died in Richland, Lexington, and Kershaw counties, a statistic that includes eleven more deaths...

• Columbia Car Accident on I-20 Kills Two

  Pete Strom | July 16, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Texas man and his daughter were killed in a horrible car accident Saturday on I-20. Traffic was backed up for hours as investigators combed the scene.The highway patrol says a car with five people inside drove off the road near mile marker 88 around 2:00pm and hit a tree. Officials say there were two adults and three children from Texas in the car. One of my employees drove by the accident and...