August 29, 2025 • 5 mins
Thumbs Up Guy's Brandon Dawson live on 94.3 WSC runs down SC's new 'Hands Free' Law Effective Labor Day Monday, Sept. 1st 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WSC.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
When you're driving that vehicle, you got to have your
hands on the wheel. You can't be distracted. It's just
common sense. But sometimes it takes a law to remind
everybody of that common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Govinor McMaster laying down the law quite literally. Brandon Dasa
joining us live from the thumbs up guys. So here
people are just trying to get to work just so
they can have a long labor day weekend. And this
is just a heads up because come Monday when you're
coming back into town, we have to change our habits
when it comes to being inside the vehicle. And I
think so often branded when I'm stuck in traffic, what
(00:38):
do you do? Do you start fiddling around with your phone?
Might be your problem come monday.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I think we all have a
tendency to kind of pick up our phone or anytime
we're to stop light or traffic slow. I know, you
know I've been guilty of that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So yes, starting September first, as you heard it there
from Governor McMaster, we have the hands free Law going
into effect, which means you cannot touch or hold your phone.
Hands free truly means hands free only voice activated or
mounted use while driving is permitted. So even if you're
that stop light, you are not allowed to pick up
your phone and mess with it. You can use Siri,
(01:12):
You can talk on your phone as long as you're
not holding your phone.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Is it the wearables too, Brandon?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You could talk on your wearable. You could say you know,
to your Apple Watch or whatever it is you have.
You could use voice activated, but you cannot start touching
that screen. So if you're touching a screen with your finger,
you're going to be in trouble if you get seen
by the.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Police while you're moving. So, if you're at a stop position,
at a stop traffic light and you have a phone mounted,
can you clear some of the alerts so you still
have a battery before you can get home and plug
back in.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Technically, it's saying that you if you're not in park
you can get a fine. Wow, so your device when
legally parked or stopped. It's a little vague when what
stop means to me? Sally, if it's an emergency, you know,
report an accident in emergency or other hazards you can
use your device at that point in time, but they
really want like I said, hands free means hands free.
(02:02):
So luckily we do have a one hundred and eighty
day grace period where they're just going to issue warning,
so that will run through the end of February and
then starting March first, actual tickets will begin.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They're talking about points here, so they're taking this seat
right yep.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
First offense one hundred dollars fine, Second offense two hundred
dollars fine plus the two points you mentioned, which is
a lot more than what it is now. I believe
that's a twenty five dollars fine at this point in time,
and maybe going up to fifty if you got caught today.
So no points from anything like that today. There really are,
as you said, taking it seriously. And the reason why
is this is the number one cause of collisions that
(02:37):
we see. We always say it's not an accident when
you plow it into the back of somebody because you're
playing candy crushing your phone. So we want to really
avoid this, and we're really happy that the governor and
the legislature has enacted this law. I think it really
will cut down on the recks we are the thirty
third state to do this that the other states have
seen a reduction in distracted driving and the collisions and
injuries that happen afterwards. Be super mindful.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
We're talking live, just tuning in Brandon Dawson's personal injury lawyer,
founding partner there at Miller Dawson's signal and ward.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
The thumb's up, guys.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, So should they go from more details about this?
Can they go to your website and get the load
down the deal?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Absolutely? Yep. You can visit us at inpain dot com.
That's I inpain dot com. You can always look us up.
Thumbs up, guys, and we'll come right up on social media,
Google all the other fun places.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Just a reminder to wrap this up. No holding your
phone to talk to text, to email, to browse social
You mentioned candy crush watching videos. Some people take video
calls when they're driving. I mean, how many in your
social scroll videos do you come across where people are
driving and they are recording videos.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Esus you You would be amazed, right, And how many
times we found when we have a case and we
are doing some research against the defendit in the case
and they're posting videos of them. We will send that
to the defense and say, here's a video of your driver,
you know, filming himself while driving about thirty minutes before
you plow it into the back of our client. Let's
just say that that goes a long way and getting
(04:01):
a great result for our client. We hope that again
that never happens, and hopefully this will be a part
of the solution. But yeah, it's crazy how many times
people do stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
They are saying within the slaw brand in Dawson with
the thumbs up guys that you can use your phone
and we already talked about this when legally stopped or parked.
And I guess legally stopped when we talk about legal
ease is when your car is in park. So I
thought by a traffic light, when I'm stopped, I would
be able to clear some messages or do whatever. But
it sounds like maybe not correct.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, I would say, do not touch that phone if
unless your car is in park. So if you're getting
directions going somewhere before you, you know, pull out of
that parking spot, go ahead and put it in there.
Or you know, if you've got an iPhone or Android
and you can use the AI the series. You could
use that and say, hey, you know, I need directions
to X, Y or Z, but yeah, don't go fiddling
with it unless you're.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
In park, controlling navigation or with music. They say, as
long as you're not holding your phone that apparently you
can do that. So I think there's going to be
the six month learning curve here for giving that to
that grace period. So just remember that though it's time
to start changing, because you know how we are were
creatures of habit as human beings. Brendan Dawson, So I listen.
(05:10):
I appreciate you taking some time this.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Morning your news, traffic, weather, and information station. This is
Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to three WSC
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WSC.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
When you're driving that vehicle, you got to have your
hands on the wheel. You can't be distracted. It's just
common sense. But sometimes it takes a law to remind
everybody of that common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Govinor McMaster laying down the law quite literally. Brandon Dasa
joining us live from the thumbs up guys. So here
people are just trying to get to work just so
they can have a long labor day weekend. And this
is just a heads up because come Monday when you're
coming back into town, we have to change our habits
when it comes to being inside the vehicle. And I
think so often branded when I'm stuck in traffic, what
(00:38):
do you do? Do you start fiddling around with your phone?
Might be your problem come monday.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I think we all have a
tendency to kind of pick up our phone or anytime
we're to stop light or traffic slow. I know, you
know I've been guilty of that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So yes, starting September first, as you heard it there
from Governor McMaster, we have the hands free Law going
into effect, which means you cannot touch or hold your phone.
Hands free truly means hands free only voice activated or
mounted use while driving is permitted. So even if you're
that stop light, you are not allowed to pick up
your phone and mess with it. You can use Siri,
(01:12):
You can talk on your phone as long as you're
not holding your phone.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Is it the wearables too, Brandon?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You could talk on your wearable. You could say you know,
to your Apple Watch or whatever it is you have.
You could use voice activated, but you cannot start touching
that screen. So if you're touching a screen with your finger,
you're going to be in trouble if you get seen
by the.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Police while you're moving. So, if you're at a stop position,
at a stop traffic light and you have a phone mounted,
can you clear some of the alerts so you still
have a battery before you can get home and plug
back in.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Technically, it's saying that you if you're not in park
you can get a fine. Wow, so your device when
legally parked or stopped. It's a little vague when what
stop means to me? Sally, if it's an emergency, you know,
report an accident in emergency or other hazards you can
use your device at that point in time, but they
really want like I said, hands free means hands free.
(02:02):
So luckily we do have a one hundred and eighty
day grace period where they're just going to issue warning,
so that will run through the end of February and
then starting March first, actual tickets will begin.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They're talking about points here, so they're taking this seat
right yep.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
First offense one hundred dollars fine, Second offense two hundred
dollars fine plus the two points you mentioned, which is
a lot more than what it is now. I believe
that's a twenty five dollars fine at this point in time,
and maybe going up to fifty if you got caught today.
So no points from anything like that today. There really are,
as you said, taking it seriously. And the reason why
is this is the number one cause of collisions that
(02:37):
we see. We always say it's not an accident when
you plow it into the back of somebody because you're
playing candy crushing your phone. So we want to really
avoid this, and we're really happy that the governor and
the legislature has enacted this law. I think it really
will cut down on the recks we are the thirty
third state to do this that the other states have
seen a reduction in distracted driving and the collisions and
injuries that happen afterwards. Be super mindful.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
We're talking live, just tuning in Brandon Dawson's personal injury lawyer,
founding partner there at Miller Dawson's signal and ward.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
The thumb's up, guys.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, So should they go from more details about this?
Can they go to your website and get the load
down the deal?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Absolutely? Yep. You can visit us at inpain dot com.
That's I inpain dot com. You can always look us up.
Thumbs up, guys, and we'll come right up on social media,
Google all the other fun places.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Just a reminder to wrap this up. No holding your
phone to talk to text, to email, to browse social
You mentioned candy crush watching videos. Some people take video
calls when they're driving. I mean, how many in your
social scroll videos do you come across where people are
driving and they are recording videos.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Esus you You would be amazed, right, And how many
times we found when we have a case and we
are doing some research against the defendit in the case
and they're posting videos of them. We will send that
to the defense and say, here's a video of your driver,
you know, filming himself while driving about thirty minutes before
you plow it into the back of our client. Let's
just say that that goes a long way and getting
(04:01):
a great result for our client. We hope that again
that never happens, and hopefully this will be a part
of the solution. But yeah, it's crazy how many times
people do stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
They are saying within the slaw brand in Dawson with
the thumbs up guys that you can use your phone
and we already talked about this when legally stopped or parked.
And I guess legally stopped when we talk about legal
ease is when your car is in park. So I
thought by a traffic light, when I'm stopped, I would
be able to clear some messages or do whatever. But
it sounds like maybe not correct.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, I would say, do not touch that phone if
unless your car is in park. So if you're getting
directions going somewhere before you, you know, pull out of
that parking spot, go ahead and put it in there.
Or you know, if you've got an iPhone or Android
and you can use the AI the series. You could
use that and say, hey, you know, I need directions
to X, Y or Z, but yeah, don't go fiddling
with it unless you're.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
In park, controlling navigation or with music. They say, as
long as you're not holding your phone that apparently you
can do that. So I think there's going to be
the six month learning curve here for giving that to
that grace period. So just remember that though it's time
to start changing, because you know how we are were
creatures of habit as human beings. Brendan Dawson, So I listen.
(05:10):
I appreciate you taking some time this.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Morning your news, traffic, weather, and information station. This is
Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to three WSC
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