It may soon be totally legal for you to break someone else’s vehicle window in South Carolina, if you feel you need to do so to rescue a child or vulnerable adult inside that vehicle.
A bill that would allow that had already passed in the South Carolina House and Thursday (1/28), it got key second reading in the South Carolina Senate.
Statistics show, on average, nearly 40 children die accidentally every year in this country, after being left in hot cars, or after getting in one to play.
Tragically, we’ve had cases like that around here.
Among the bill’s sponsors, State Representatives Richie Yow (D-Chesterfield), the Rev. Carl Anderon (D-Georgetown), Murrell Smith (R-Sumter) and Jay Lucas (R-Hartsville).
After an obligatory third reading in the Senate, the bill goes back to the House.
If it agrees with Senate amendments, it then goes to Governor Haley.
