South Carolina Bill Will Make Drunk Drivers Pay Child Support to Victims

South Carolina is taking the next step when it comes to handling drunk driver situations. The proposed law will hold individuals convicted of drunk driving financially responsible if they cause a crash that kills a child's parent or guardian. As these crashes would 100% permanently affect the child to the parent or guardian.

According to WCBD News 2, State Reps. Stewart Jones and Joe White brought the legislation to the House Tuesday. The bill will require a person found guilty of a DUI or BUI resulting in the death of a parent to pay restitution. Restitution will be in the form of child support until the child is 18 years old. The penalty will also apply to drivers convicted of reckless vehicular homicide will at least one prior DUI conviction. Said person will have to pay an amount deemed "reasonable and necessary." The amount of money will also be calculated similarly to how child support is determined. If they are unable to make payments, they will have up to one year after release to start the payment plan toward the victim, says News 2.

How do you feel about this potential bill coming into action? I certainly can understand why this is happening. Hopefully another step into making people think twice before driving under the influence.

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Are you traveling to or from the Carolinas this holiday season? If so you might be interested to know that a South Carolina airport ranks as having some of the highest numbers of canceled flights. This is among all US airports. The data comes to us from our friends at Insure My Trip. In order to help empower passengers to make more informed decisions when booking flights around the holidays their researchers analyzed the latest flight cancellation data* to reveal which airports are more prone to flight cancellations.

The last thing you want to start or end your vacation is a flight delay. Unless of course you're on a tropical island in denial that you have to return to everyday life. But since that's not typically the case, avoiding canceled flights is the standard we aim for. So to create this list Insure My Trip looked at the busiest U.S. airports with the most and least percentage of flights canceled. This list is based on newly released data, which includes January through August of 2022.

Rankings were based on the flight cancellation rate per airport. Airports on the list also reported 10,000 or more scheduled flights for 2022 (year to date). Sources include InsureMyTrip and The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). BTS tracks the on-time performance of domestic flights operated by large air carriers.

Keep reading to see which South Carolina airport ranked in the top 10 for canceled flights. You can read the full study by Insure My Trip here.

Location: New York, NY (Queens)

Score: 6.42%

Location: New York, NY (Newark, NJ)

Score: 6.36%

Location: Washington, DC

Score: 4.96%

Location: Buffalo, NY

Score: 4.75%

Location: New York, NY (Queens)

Score: 4.74%

Location: West Palm Beach, FL

Score: 4.46%

Location: Norfolk, VA

Score: 4.41%

Location: Boston, MA

Score: 4.27%

Location: Hartford, CT

Score: 4.10%

Location: Charleston, SC

Score: 3.99%

Location: Raleigh, NC

Score: 3.79%

Location: Charlotte, NC

Score: 3.42%

Location: Myrtle Beach, SC

Score: 2.57%