Mother of victim in deadly 2007 Nordstrom DUI crash charged with DUI

By WBTW Staff Reports

Published: August 25, 2008

Friday night, the Highway Patrol arrested 44-year-old Teri S. Edgar and charged her with driving under the influence.

Teri Edgar is the mother of Savannah Belle Edgar, who died in an early morning crash on March 31, 2007 at the intersections of Highway 544 and Highway 17 Business in Surfside Beach.

Troopers charged 26-year-old Jeremy Michael Nordstrom in the crash.

Edgar is employed with WBTW-TV.

Edgar was booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center just before 4 a.m. Saturday.

A county magistrate set Edgar’s bond at $992 and released her from jail Saturday afternoon.

Edgar had no comment Monday and referred us to her attorney Bob Sutton.

“Troopers are doing a crackdown right now; you’re going to get some guilty and some innocent,” Sutton told News13 in a phone interview Monday.

“Just because a Trooper makes an arrest, doesn’t mean it’ll hold up in the future,” Sutton said.

In May, Nordstrom pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony DUI from the 2007 crash that killed Edgar’s daughter and her best friend, Shanna Stines.

Another woman, Amanda Tenney, suffered a broken jaw in the accident.

On May 29, Nordstrom started serving a 21 year prison sentence at the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia.

Nordstrom was driving southbound on Highway 17 when he ran a red light and slammed into two other cars. Two of the three people inside one of the cars died, another sent to the hospital with serious injuries.

Troopers arrested Nordstrom at the scene and charged him with two counts of felony DUI involving death and one count of felony DUI with great bodily injury and possession of a controlled substance.

The Highway Patrol reports showed Nordstrom’s blood alcohol level at 0.23, that’s almost three times the legal limit in South Carolina.

In Feb. 2008, Edgar, and her ex-husband Dean Edgar, filed a wrongful death suit against the owners of the Garden City bar Nordstrom left the night of the deadly accident.

Prosecutors said Nordstrom spent hours at the Garden City Wild Wing Café drinking and playing in a band before he left the night of the deadly accident.

As of this posting, the suit remained pending and awaiting a jury trial to decide the matter.

Both victims were graduates of Socastee High, Stines coached the St. James High softball team; both were actively involved in athletics at the schools.

The Highway Patrol has not released Edgar’s blood alcohol level, which Edgar says was never measured through either a breathalyzer or a blood test.

No word yet on a trial date for Edgar.