S.C. Code § 56-5-5090
Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled
South Carolina · South Carolina Code Title 56, Chapter 5 — Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways · Status: effective
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- S.C. Code § 56-5-5090, Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled, South Carolina, version 1 as recorded 2026-09-28, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1590976
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Whenever any motor truck, passenger bus, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer is disabled upon the traveled portion of any highway or the shoulder thereof outside of any municipality at any time when lighted lamps are required on vehicles, the driver of such vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is so disabled on the highway, except as provided in Section 56-5-5100:
(1) A lighted fusee shall be immediately placed on the roadway at the traffic side of the motor vehicle unless electric lanterns are displayed; and
(2) Within the burning period of the fusee and as promptly as possible three lighted flares (pot torches) or three electric lanterns shall be placed on the roadway as follows: One at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle, one at a distance of approximately one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle, each in the center of the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle, and one at the traffic side of the vehicle approximately ten feet rearward or forward thereof.