It was a usual summer trip home from the beach for Bernadette Robinson and her family. That usual ride home ended in tragedy.
"The windshield, I heard glass, fire come across my head, the next thing I know my mouth is full of dirt, I was way away from the car and I looked up and the car was in flames,” says Robinson, who survived the crash.
Highway Patrol says Robinson’s car collided with Phillip Roland Marshall’s 2000 Volvo. Investigators say Marshall was going at a high rate of speed down Highway 76 just in front of Francis Marion University early Saturday morning.
Highway Patrol says Marshall’s car hit Robinson’s, which had her three children and boyfriend inside. Hours later, Robinson and her 14 year old son were in the hospital. Her children, ages nine and four and boyfriend were dead. Robinson says that while three lives were taken that night, an entire family is ruined.
"We were a typical family, ups and downs, but everybody loved one another...my babies, those were my babies,” Robinson said at Phillip Roland Marshall’s bond hearing.
Marshall’s bond was set at a total $65,000 on Sunday. Marshall faces five counts of felony DUI and hit and run. Bernadette Robinson says she now faces herself, and continuing on without the family she’s known.
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