The 2024 changes to SC DUI laws primarily mean one thing – ignition interlock devices for everyone who is convicted of DUI or has an implied consent suspension, with few exceptions. The new ignition interlock/ DUI laws were passed by the SC legislature in 2023 and went into effect on May 19, 2024. In this ...
What is dram shop liability in SC? When a drunk driver causes a crash and injures or kills someone else, 1) they will most likely go to jail for DUI or felony DUI, and 2) they are liable for the damages they caused which may include wrongful death and punitive damages. The bar or other ...
How do you spot a drunk driver on the road? And, more importantly, once you spot a drunk driver on the road, how do you avoid them? You would think that, as a society, we would be getting better at keeping drunk drivers off the road and preventing unnecessary DUI deaths. The truth is that ...
No matter how careful we are, how prepared we are, or how much training we have in the safe operation of a motorcycle and defensive driving, a drunk driver can come out of nowhere and change or even end a motorcyclist’s life. Next to a motorcycle v. eighteen-wheeler collision, it is the worst possible scenario. ...