Family sued after golf cart runs into family at Myrtle Beach area ice cream shop
A child pushed on the gas pedal of a golf cart, causing the vehicle to drive forward and hit a mother and her child outside an ice cream shop, according to a lawsuit.
Mackenzie Truesdale, of Virginia, filed a lawsuit against Ponderosa doing business as PirateLand Camping Resort and Zachary Pemberton and Meredith Pemberton, on behalf of her minor child, T.T. She filed the suit on April 14 in the Horry County Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court.
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On July 4, 2024, Truesdale and her child were sitting outside the ice cream shop in PirateLand Camping Resort, 5401 S Kings Highway, when a golf cart operated by the Pembertons hit them, according to the lawsuit.
The Pemberton family had rented a golf cart from PirateLand and were using it when one of their children hit the gas pedal, “causing the vehicle to accelerate forward off of the pavement and strike the seated Plaintiffs,” the suit said.
The crash caused great harm to Truesdale and her child, according to the lawsuit, resulting in substantial medical expenses, pain and suffering, property damage and future impairment.
Truesdale is suing the Pembertons and PriateLand for negligence. The lawsuit states the Pembertons allowed their child to access the vehicle’s controls and drove in a reckless manner, and that PirateLand rented the golf cart without ensuring the drivers were trained and prepared to drive the vehicle.
Truesdale is requesting a jury trial to determine actual damages, special damages, consequential damages and punitive damages.
