Personal Injury

ROCK HILL — A baby and his grandmother were attacked by a dog Friday in Rock Hill.

Deputies met with a 41-year-old woman who said she was pushing her grandson in a stroller on Pine Grove Court in Rock Hill when the dog ran into the road and attacked them, according to a York County Sheriff’s report.

The dog scratched the infant, said Steve Stuber, director for York County Animal Control. According to the sheriff’s report, the woman said her grandson had a small red bruise and two scratches on his left leg after the attack, the report states.

Deputies found the dog’s owner, who confirmed that the dog did jump on the woman and baby. The dog has been placed under quarantine for 10 days to gauge if it has rabies, Stuber said.

The report does not list the infant’s age or specify what breed of dog attacked. The grandmother declined to comment.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/17/4269549/dog-attacks-baby-grandmother-in.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

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We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

Air Force Academy graduate was hit by driver going wrong way on Interstate 77

FORT LAWN — A runner hit by a car in Chester County on Labor Day has died, according to the Highway Patrol.

EMS took the woman to Edgemoor, where she was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center, said Chester County Coroner Terry Tinker. She later died.

Around 1:35 p.m., Charles Crockett, 61, was traveling south on Shirley Road in Fort Lawn when a pedestrian, a 49-year-old woman, running west entered the road and was hit by Crockett, who drove a 1978 Ford pickup truck, said Lance Cpl. Billy Elder with the Highway Patrol.

Crockett, who lives in Chester, was wearing a seat belt during the accident, Elder said.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/11/4252416/pedestrian-hit-by-car-on-labor.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

Great Falls man dies in hit-and-run crash

GREAT FALLS — A Great Falls man was killed early Saturday after he was hit by a car while walking along S.C. 99, authorities said.

London Coleman, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene from head injuries, Chester County Deputy Coroner Tommy Williams said.

The S.C. Highway Patrol is searching for the driver, who could face felony hit-and- run charges.

A motorist discovered Coleman’s body around 6:30 a.m. and called 911. Authorities believe Coleman was hit between 4 and 5 a.m.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/08/4246639/great-falls-man-victim-of-hit.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

A tractor-trailer and car crash with injuries has backed up traffic in the northbound lanes of I-77 from the North Carolina state line to Gold Hill Road, according to the Highway Patrol.

The right lane of northbound I-77 is closed at the 485 exit ramp, and traffic has stopped as emergency crews work the scene.

Drivers needing to head toward Charlotte can use Tryon Street as an alternative route.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/05/4236304/wreck-backs-up-traffic-on-i-77.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

Fort Mill man dies after falling from tree in Rock Hill accident

ROCK HILL — A Fort Mill man died Monday afternoon after he fell from a tree during a work-related accident in Rock Hill.

Kenneth Vinson, 49, of 412 Munn Road was pronounced dead at Piedmont Medical Center after he fell from a tree on Abernathy Street, said York County Coroner Sabrina Gast. Vinson, who Gast said was doing some kind of "tree work," died of injuries suffered during the fall.

Vinson had been working with a company when he fell. Gast was unsure Monday evening exactly how Vinson fell, but she said an autopsy and toxicology tests were scheduled for Tuesday.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/27/4216949/fort-mill-man-dies-after-falling.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

2 airlifted after 'head-on' car crash on Fort Mill highway

FORT MILL — Two motorists traveling in opposite directions on a Fort Mill highway were flown to a Charlotte hospital after a "head-on collision" Thursday evening.

The Fort Mill police and fire departments have blocked off Springfield Parkway near Merritt Road to finish an investigation into the accident, said Capt. Bryan Zachary with the Fort Mill Police Department.

Zachary wasn't able to provide many details but he said that two people were driving on opposite sides of the highway when they collided.

Zachary wasn't sure of the drivers' genders or where they were from, but he did say one driver suffered a head injury while the other suffered a leg injury. He was unable to say whether these injuries were "life threatening."

"It was serious enough that they had to be transported" by helicopter rather than by ambulance, Zachary said.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/16/4195478/2-airlifted-after-head-on-car.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

Indian Land High grad who died in crash ‘was going places’

Thomas Russell Harris, a 2009 Indian Land High School graduate who stood out for his stellar grades, athletic ability and outgoing personality, died Saturday in a motorcycle accident.

Authorities said Harris, 21, was riding a motorcycle on U.S. 521 that evening when he drove off the road and hit a culvert pipe, which carries water from one side of the road to the other.

The S.C. Highway Patrol reported the accident over the weekend, but Harris’ identity wasn’t released until Tuesday.

Harris was taken to a Carolinas Medical Center in Waxhaw, N.C., where he died from injuries related to the accident.

Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris said he is awaiting specifics from medical officials.

Harris was well known and adored by many on campus, Indian Land High Principal David Shamble said.

“You can throw any good adjective in there you want,” Shamble said. “It’s true. What a great young man. He was going places. The world was his oyster.”

At Indian Land High, Harris was ranked second in his class. He was in ROTC, wrestled and played football. He also was an Eagle Scout with Troop 275 and a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church.

“If you put together all of those traits that a new parent would love for their child to have, he has them,” Shamble said.

In 2009, Harris told the Fort Mill Times that he dreamed of being a United States Marine.

He graduated from Indian Land High that summer with acceptance letters from all three U.S. military academies – the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Harris received recommendations from former U.S. Rep. John Spratt and U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham.

Harris chose the Naval Academy, where he attended until spring of this year.

“My dad taught me a lot about the Naval Academy, and sometime around the middle of my junior year I decided I really wanted to apply,” Harris said in June 2009. “It felt great to get into all three. I'm pretty excited.”

He was one of 1,200 students accepted to the Naval Academy that year, chosen from more than 15,000 applicants.

“I used to joke with him that we’ve at least had one president come from there,” said Shamble, referring to Andrew Jackson. “I told we were looking forward to having another – one from Indian Land.”

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/15/4190487/indian-land-high-grad-who-was.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

Rock Hill crash damages sign honoring S.C.’s first black female lawmaker

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/14/4189340/rock-hill-crash-damages-sign-honoring.html#storylink=cpyAt the S.C. Department of Transportation sign shop, workdays are spent replacing and fixing road signs that are clipped, run over and smashed by drivers.

But the most recently smashed York County sign was not just any sign – it bears the name of a political trailblazer in the neighborhood she called home.

A hit-and-run driver in Rock Hill damaged a sign honoring the first-ever black woman to serve in the General Assembly, the late Juanita Goggins.

To make matters worse, the driver damaged an expensive sign at the entrance to the Boyd Hill community that elderly neighbors do not have the money to replace.

The signs are on Rock Hill’s West Main Street at the corner of Bynum Avenue, just west of Cherry Road. Police are investigating, but it remains unclear who ran over the green “Juanita Goggins Highway” sign and cracked in half the wooden “Boyd Hill” neighborhood sign.

Goggins, a teacher, was first elected in 1974, re-elected in 1976 and 1978 before illness ended her political career in 1980. She died in 2010.

The stretch of West Main Street between Cherry Road and Heckle Boulevard was named in her honor a year before she died.

Her ex-husband, retired Rock Hill dentist Dr. Horace Goggins, still lives at the western limit of the neighborhood. An identical sign for eastbound motorists stands in front of the Goggins home as a proud reminder of Juanita Goggins’ service.

“It is a real shame that someone would hit the other sign,” Goggins said. “And to make it worse, whomever did it did not stop and tell anyone. That is what hurts the most.”

The sign was damaged just a couple of weeks before the Democratic National Convention arrives 25 miles north in Charlotte. Juanita Goggins was the first black woman from South Carolina to serve on the Democratic National Committee, which runs the convention.

A sign that honored Boyd Hill as Rock Hill’s neighborhood of the year in 1996 was also damaged, but a wooden neighborhood sign is a loss that has neighbors upset.

The custom-made “Boyd Hill Community, families working together” neighborhood sign – up since the mid 1990s – is identical to a sign on Constitution Boulevard on the other side of the neighborhood. The sign would cost more than $1,500 to replace.

“We don’t have that kind of money,” said Joe McMoore, president of the neighborhood association. “We had two fundraisers all those years ago to buy those signs. The signs are there so that everyone would feel welcome coming into Boyd Hill. Boyd Hill belongs to the people.”

Boyd Hill, bordered by Cherry Road to the east and Heckle Boulevard to the west, is home to many elderly residents who have lived in the predominantly black neighborhood for decades. A floodlight that shines on the sign so it can be seen at night also was destroyed.

“We love our signs and love our neighborhood,” said Floree Hooper, another neighborhood association member. “The sign welcomes people who live here home, but it also welcomes everyone to Boyd Hill.”

State Department of Transportation workers, alerted to the damage Monday by The Herald, immediately re-posted the state-owned Goggins sign on two new metal poles.

The poles that were sheared off in the wreck are made to break away if hit by a vehicle, said David Kelly, foreman of the sign shop for DOT’s York County operation.

The Goggins sign was warped and bent by the impact, but workers Ron Winters and Lee Wade, along with a state prison inmate from a work-release program, were able to save the sign.

A new sign would have cost several hundred dollars, Kelly said.

After his work was done, Lee said: “This sign matters to people. Nobody should knock it down.”

Want to help?

To donate to the Boyd Hill Neighborhood Association for a replacement sign, write to Joe McMoore, president, Boyd Hill neighborhood association, 324 Berry St., Rock Hill, S.C. 29732.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/14/4189340/rock-hill-crash-damages-sign-honoring.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. — Authorities say one person is dead and two others injured after a motorcycle wreck in Georgetown County.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol says four motorcycles were involved in the crash after 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Troopers say the first three riders slowed down, but a fourth biker in the back did not and hit the other three.

All four bikers were thrown from their motorcycles. The rider on the back motorcycle was killed, and two others were sent to the hospital for treatment.

A fourth rider had on a helmet and suffered minor injuries.

No names have been released, and the Highway Patrol says it's still investigating the crash.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/06/4166611/1-killed-2-hurt-in-georgetown.html

Shaw Law Firm focuses its representation on individuals and families who have been Injured. We represent clients involved in Automobile accidents, Tractor-Trailer accidents, Motorcycle accidents, Hit and Run accidents, Drivers with no insurance accidents, Pedestrian and Bicycle accidents. We also handle claims associated with Dog Bites/Attacks, Injuries on the Job, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Prescription Errors and all Injuries associated with Children.

Shaw Law Firm has a Former Prosecutor on Staff who is dedicated to representing families and individuals going through difficult situations. Divorces and persons accused of Crimes, including alcohol and drug related charges are the focus.

We serve York County, Lancaster County and Chester County and all cities within those counties including Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay, York, Sharon, Hickory Grove, Indian Land, Catawba, Lancaster, Chester, Great Falls and Richburg. We also serve Charlotte and the entire surrounding region.