South Carolina Beach Patrol Tragedy: Lawsuit Filed

HCPD might as well get out the checkbook. The settlement or judgment on a case that shocks the human conscience as much as this incident does should be enormous. Sadly, no amount of money can compensate this lady’s family and friends for her loss, or her for the pain, suffering, and terror, she suffered in her last moments on this side; due to abject negligence by HCPD in allowing a vehicle of this size and type to be utilized for routine beach patrol, and by the driver, in not exercising due care and caution in such an environment.

It is both disturbing and ironic, how things done by enforcement agencies “for our safety” at times come back to harm us. Things like the State Trooper, some years back, stopping a black motorist at a gas station near I-20 and Broad River Rd, to admonish and ticket him for not wearing his seat belt, but wound up shooting the motorist on that stop when the motorist reached in his vehicle for a wallet. What was the urgent mission that this large vehicle was deployed for on a beach where citizens routinely lay on the ground? Was it to admonish and ticket citizens for the heinous infraction of consuming alcohol on the beach or some similar affront to safety, truth, justice and The American Way? I bet people are chomping at the bit to visit Horry County beaches at this moment so they might experience such a level of safety.