Automobile Accidents

• Charleston Man Dies In Car Crash

  Chrissie Cole | March 15, 2009 3:13 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  A Charleston man lost his life on Friday night when he was thrown from his vehicle. The car crash happened on Ashley Crossing Lane. According to Highway Patrol officials, the driver, 21, was...

• 32 Pre-Schoolers Suffer Minor Injuries in School Bus Crash

  Amy Rothschild | March 10, 2008 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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,...

• Woman Killed on I-26 Near Charleston, South Carolina

  Amy Rothschild | February 11, 2008 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• Fiery Fatal Crash Kills Three in Mullins, South Carolina

  Amy Rothschild | November 27, 2007 9:27 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• Jury Awards Almost $11 Million in Railroad Death

  Amy Rothschild | November 12, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• Two Die When Ford Explorer SUV Rolls off I-526 Bridge in Charleston, SC

  Amy Rothschild | October 02, 2007 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• Terrible Motor Vehicle Accident Involving a Tractor-Trailer In Colleton County in South Carolina Sends Victim to Trauma Center

  Amy Rothschild | August 28, 2007 9:38 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• S.C. Deputy Lucky to Be Alive After Almost Being Hit By Drunk Driver from North Charleston, SC

  Amy Rothschild | August 14, 2007 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• Five Killed and Others Injured in Violent Multi-Vehicle Car Accident in Charleston, SC

  Amy Rothschild | July 16, 2007 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...

• The Black Box - "Big Brother" Capturing Car Accident Information

  Amy Rothschild | June 08, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  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...