CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)-- A suit has actually been submitted against a female who was apparently intoxicated when she crashed into a golf cart bring a wedding event party, eliminating the bride and badly hurting the groom last month on Folly Beach in South Carolina.
Jamie Komoroski is named together with various dining establishments and bars which lawyers say she checked out in the hours prior to the lethal crash.
The suit alleges Komoroski started at El Gallo Bar and Grill near Daniel Island prior to traveling to Folly Beach, where they said she started bar hopping along Center Street. Stops consisted of The Drop In, The Crab Shack, and Snapper Jacks.
" Despite being noticeable and noticeably intoxicated at each of these establishments, Jamie Komoroski continued to be served, supplied, and/or allowed to take in extreme and additional quantities of alcohol at each of them," the lawsuit reads.
Lawyers further allege that Komoroski was then permitted to leave the bars and enter into her vehicle where she drove east on East Ashley Avenue "in the opposite instructions of her home" on James Island.
Aric Hutchinson and Samantha Miller had actually just left their wedding party when Komoroski knocked into the back of their golf cart. Miller passed away at the scene from blunt force injury while Hutchinson and others on the golf cart suffered serious injuries.
Records later on exposed that Komoroski's blood alcohol content was at least 0.261, which is more than 3 times the legal limitation.
Authorities stated Komoroski reached speeds of 65 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone.
" The state grants restaurants and bars a license for the advantage to serve alcohol, and with that opportunity comes a duty to the community to serve clients properly and to deny service to people who are visibly inebriated," stated Attorney Danny Dalton, who is representing Aric Hutchinson in the suit.
The lawsuit claims the establishments noted were negligent in the supervision and training of their staff members, basically enabling Komoroski to be overserved and not observed for her level of intoxication.
The lawsuit claims that Komoroski was a brand-new worker of Taco Boy and accuses her supervisor of" ... arranging, arranging, and monitoring a worker function knowing that excessive quantities of liquors would be acquired for, served to, and consumed by the staff members attending the function."
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The lawsuit also consists of a minimum of 20 John or Jane Does as accuseds. Those individuals are unknown and unidentified at this time but might include "owners, supervisors, operators, agents, independent contractors, security business" and others who had responsibility over the named bars and restaurants, according to the suit.
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"There are still numerous details we do not know about the series of events leading up to the awful crash, but by filing a lawsuit, we can begin the legal discovery process that enables us to get the answers that Samantha's household is worthy of," said Dalton.
When asked by Nexstar's WCBD, the establishments named above declined to comment on the claim.
Aric Hutchinson, who is now recovering at home, is called as a plaintiff, as is Benjamin Garrett, and Aric's minor nephew, B.G.
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