Bamberg County Man Sues Over Motor Vehicle Accident, Naming Multiple Defendants

Terrence Griffin filed a civil complaint last week in Bamberg County Circuit Court naming Kenneth Folk, Priscilla Sabb, and Telsey Sabb, along with a fourth unnamed John Doe defendant, in a motor-vehicle negligence case seeking damages for personal injuries sustained in a crash.

The lawsuit, docketed March 24 under case number 2026CP0500056, was filed by Griffin's attorney, Donald Loren Smith, in the Court of Common Pleas division of the South Carolina Circuit Court for Bamberg County. The case is formally classified under motor-vehicle negligence and personal-injury claims.

The presence of a John Doe defendant alongside three named individuals signals that Smith believes additional parties may share responsibility, a tactic common in collision litigation when the full list of liable parties cannot be confirmed at the time of filing. That unnamed slot typically covers an unidentified driver, a vehicle owner, or a corporate entity such as an employer or insurer whose role may become clear through discovery.

The specific crash location, the nature of Griffin's injuries, and the dollar amount of damages sought do not appear in the public docket summary. Those details ordinarily surface in the body of the complaint itself or through the exchange of accident reports, medical records, and witness statements as the case moves forward.

Under the standard South Carolina circuit-court timeline, the next procedural steps are the clerk issuing a summons, service of process on each named defendant, and appearances by counsel. No hearings had been scheduled as of the March 24 docket entry.

Bamberg County's roads have produced a cluster of fatal and serious crashes in recent years, lending broader context to any personal-injury filing in the county. South Carolina Highway Patrol's Troop Seven, which covers Bamberg alongside Aiken, Allendale, Barnwell, Calhoun, Hampton, and Orangeburg counties, has responded to repeated deadly wrecks along the county's main corridors. A fatal single-vehicle crash on U.S. 78 at McKenna Lane, west of Denmark, occurred in early March 2025. A 2022 Dodge Challenger traveling east on U.S. 78 near Ghents Branch was involved in another deadly single-vehicle wreck in August 2025. A two-vehicle collision in Bamberg County claimed a life in April 2025. An earlier fatal crash was recorded on S.C. Highway 70 near Deer Crossing Road, about seven miles north of Bamberg. Against that backdrop, South Carolina recorded 946 traffic fatalities statewide in 2025, a 21 percent reduction from 1,198 in 2021, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.

The Griffin case can be tracked using docket number 2026CP0500056 through the South Carolina Judicial Department's public index or by contacting the Bamberg County Clerk of Court as filings, answers, and hearing dates accumulate in the record.