Taylor said:
Would you feel the same way if you are driving down the road and a car blows threw a stop sign and hits you...and you are injured. You then find out that person does not speak english, does not have a drivers license. The tags on their car don't go to that car but belong on a different car...and the person has no insurance to pay for your medical bills or fix your car. What happens then? This happens DAILY in the place where I work....
It's common here, too.
Recent happenings in my community:
1. "
Victor Hernandez of North Charleston, 17, was killed Saturday in a single-car accident...
Jesus Hernandez, 18, was driving a 1992 Isuzu Rodeo about 5:45 a.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve, ran off the road and struck a tree...the driver and his passenger were trapped in the vehicle and extricated by emergency workers.
Jesus Hernandez was charged with felony DUI...."
2. "A passenger died from injuries he suffered when a sport utility vehicle overturned on Rivers Avenue on Thursday night, and authorities charged the man behind the wheel with
felony driving under the influence.
... 35-year-old Mario Lagunas was trapped in the passenger seat...was not breathing and had a very weak pulse.
When officers arrived soon after the 8:30 p.m. wreck, witnesses already had helped pull out the driver, police said.
Amado Rodriguez Merino, 33, told officers he drank four beers earlier that night...
About an hour after the wreck, [Lagunas] was pronounced dead from internal injuries...
A native of Mexico, Lagunas had been living in North Charleston...same address for Lagunas and Rodriguez...."
3. "The SC Highway Patrol has issued two felony DUI arrest warrants for a North Charleston man accused of causing a four-car accident on Interstate 26 that seriously injured an Oakbrook Middle School teacher.
On April 30,
Oved Fernando Perez, 21, was driving the truck that ran through a median barrier and into oncoming traffic...
M. Emily Fletcher, 24, a sixth-grade teacher was traveling west ... when her vehicle collided with the truck. The two men inside the truck were ejected onto the highway...
Perez, who also uses the alias Jorge Hernandez Galvez, faces two counts of felony DUI
causing great bodily harm...
After the accident,
Fletcher suffered a stroke caused by damage to her carotid artery, and surgeons removed part of her skull to relieve brain swelling, said her mother...
Fletcher has some paralysis on the left side of her body and cannot speak...she will need physical therapy and will likely spend time in a residential rehabilitation facility. Her recovery could take about a year, the mother said...."
4. "A police pursuit that wound through two counties ended in death Tuesday afternoon when a runaway driver steered his van into a roadside tree...
[The coroner] identified the driver as
Gaston Perez Lara of Hanahan. He was in his 20s, though
his exact age was unknown...
his hands were covered in dusty dry-wall material, and
he was carrying a Mexican identification card...
The episode started in Berkeley County at 12:26 p.m. when the weaving, fishtailing van
nearly struck a Hanahan police officer who was assisting a disabled motorist...
'The officer and the citizen had to jump out of the way to avoid behing hit,' [police] said, adding that several nearby construction workers had to do the same.
[The driver] went onto James and Johns islands,
slamming the van into a pickup truck...the truck's driver wasn't injured...
Minutes later, the van slammed into the tree, crushing the vehicle's front end and killing the driver...."
