Jun 13, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury
A 24-year-old mother and her two children were killed after their car hit an alligator on I-95 in Orangeburg County last month. They were traveling from their Florida home to Myrtle Beach for a week of vacation. After hitting the 9-foot-alligator, the family’s...
Jun 6, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Trucking Accidents
Black boxes are not just for airplanes, anymore. If you have a new car, it almost certainly has an Event Data Recorder (EDR), more commonly known as a black box. EDRs help carmakers determine how to improve vehicle safety, and they help investigators determine what...
May 18, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury
A 16-year-old Texas girl died after removing her seatbelt to take a selfie. Just seconds after she unbuckled and snapped the photo, the car she was riding in ran off the road and flipped. The girl was ejected from the vehicle and died instantly; everyone else in the...
May 9, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Insurance, Personal Injury
You’ve been in a serious car accident, you may need surgery or even long-term care, and your car is totaled. Do you make an insurance claim? File a lawsuit? What now? For someone who is not an attorney, doesn’t work in the insurance industry, and has never been in a...
May 2, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death
South Carolina has some of the most dangerous roads in the nation. The state’s highway fatality rate – 1.88 deaths per 100 million miles driven – is higher than in any other state and almost twice as high as the national average, according to the...
Apr 26, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury
You should always seek medical care after an auto accident in SC. Always. There are two reasons for this: You may have injuries you are not aware of or injuries that are worse than you realize; and The at-fault driver’s insurance company will use your failure to...
