South Carolina Injury Lawyer Blog

South Carolina personal injury lawyers learned of a Columbia couple whose vehicle was struck by a drunk driver while they were traveling along Interstate 95. The collision occurred four miles south Walterboro, near mile marker 49, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Sadly, the man and women from Columbia, both in their early 70s, were killed in the collision, according to the Colleton County Coroner’s Office.

South Carolina State Troopers have charged the drunk driver, a 34-year-old man from Delaware, with two counts of felony DUI involving death. The man was driving his 1992 Ford Mustang in the northbound lanes when he changed lanes, striking the 70-year-old women from Columbia. She and her husband were traveling in a Suburban. After the being hit by the drunk driver, the impact forced the Suburban to run off the interstate and collide with a tree.

The couple were both killed at the scene of the auto accident from multiple, serious injuries. It was also reported that both were wearing their seat belts at the time of the accident.

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On the early morning of February 12th, allegedly, a homeless man entered an unlocked door of Gentiva Health Services, a Mt. Pleasant hospice, walked across the hall, into an 86-year-old woman’s room, and sexually assaulted her. After hearing a scream, a nurse rushed to the room and found the homeless man atop the helpless hospice resident.

Since the attack, the victim’s daughter filed a suit in federal district court in Charleston, contending the hospice failed to provide “reasonable and necessary security.” The suit accuses the hospice’s operators of negligence after the aforementioned attacker gained unchallenged entry into the facility and eventually to the dying woman’s room. The suit seeks unspecified actual and punitive damages.

Charleston nursing home neglect attorneys know the residents and families of residents in hospice facilities are dependent on the caregivers in that setting to provide quality care. When nurses, nurses' aids, doctors, or administrators in a nursing home fail to care for residents' well-being in a manner consistent with standards applicable to that setting, the result may be pain and suffering, or even wrongful death.

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This particular incident hits, quite literally, close to home for the staff of Howell and Christmas, LLC. A 24-year-old student from Rollins College in Central Florida died a couple weekends back after an accidental fall from a second-floor balcony on Coming Street in Downtown Charleston. The said residence is less than a full block from the home of a student interning at the South Carolina wrongful death attorneys' Mt. Pleasant office.

The 24-year-old student was originally from Massachusetts, but had come to Charleston the weekend of February 25th to visit friends at the College. In the late, late hours of Saturday night, officers in the area of Radcliffeburrough responded to a noise complaint apartment B of the Coming Street residence. About 45 minutes later, at 4:15 a.m., the officers heard a loud noise while talking to one of the residents about the written noise citation, according to the police report.

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In quite a large number of posts, the Charleston auto accident lawyers at Howell and Christmas, LLC have mentioned that the easiest way to prevent serious injuries and death in a car collision is to wear a seat belt. To some, it is common sense and standard practice to buckle up when getting in their car. To others, it is a safety consideration that is entirely disregarded when traveling in a car.

In a recent two-vehicle accident on Folly Road, all of the 5 persons involved were not wearing their seat belts. The driver of a Ford Explorer that crossed the centerline and struck a Ford F-250, died after being ejected from the SUV. The passenger in the Explorer was also ejected and taken to Medical University Hospital, along with the other passengers and driver of the F-250, with life-threatening injuries.

A strikingly sad aspect of this incident is that all of those in the Ford Explorer were ages 19 and 18. Showing a serious need for Charleston area young people to actively use seat belts. They may not seem “cool” to youngsters, for whatever reason, but accidents like these are an unnecessary learning experience to realize the importance of buckling up every time you get in the car.

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Known to South Carolina personal injury lawyers, and the rest of the country for that matter, as the best-selling vehicle in America, the F-series pickup truck produced by Ford Motor Co., has come under pressure from regulators in Washington.

Last Wednesday, Ford announced it would recall 150,000 F-150 pickup trucks to repair air bags that could deploy without warning. The government contends a fraction of which should be called back and repaired. The recall covers trucks from the 2005-2006 model years in the United States and Canada, for what Ford calls a “relatively low risk” of the air bag inadvertently deploying.

By contrast, the government has urged Ford Motor Co. to recall 1.3 million F-150s from the 2004-2006 model years, citing 77 known injuries from accidental deployment of an air bar. The Continue reading " F-150 Recall, Danger of Inadvertent Air Bag Deployment " »