A Murrells Inlet bar is facing a third lawsuit in more than six months, accused of overserving alcohol to a customer who ended up driving a vehicle while intoxicated and causing a crash.Suck Bang Blow, 3393 Highway Business 17, hosted a live concert event at the bar on June 29, 2025, which encouraged high-volume alcohol consumption, according to the lawsuit filed Nov. 7.During the concert one of the customers, Kelvin Patrick Alvey, left the bar and operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated, the suit states.Alvey was sol...
A Murrells Inlet bar is facing a third lawsuit in more than six months, accused of overserving alcohol to a customer who ended up driving a vehicle while intoxicated and causing a crash.
Suck Bang Blow, 3393 Highway Business 17, hosted a live concert event at the bar on June 29, 2025, which encouraged high-volume alcohol consumption, according to the lawsuit filed Nov. 7.
During the concert one of the customers, Kelvin Patrick Alvey, left the bar and operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated, the suit states.
Alvey was sold and served alcohol at the bar before the crash that injured Angela Martin Crowder, Eddie Dean Crowder and Nolan Ryan Crowder, who filed the suit and were in the vehicle that was hit by Alvey, the complaint says.
Alvey, along with Rebecca Ann Polatas, Four Snakes Capital and Highway 17 Investments, doing business as Suck Bang Blow and Murrells Inlet Management Group, were named in the suit. It is believed Polatas is the owner of the vehicle being driven by Alvey, according to the suit.
A message left for Suck Bang Blow owners was not returned by publication.
The suit claims that Suck Bang Blow knew or should have known that allowing “visibly intoxicated persons” to leave their premises and drive posed a risk of “catastrophic harm” to other drivers, the suit said.
The suit accuses the bar of being negligent in its operation and enforcement of its written policies and procedures prohibiting service of alcohol to visibly intoxicated patrons.
Suck Bang Blow defendants have been previously sued or otherwise placed on notice for overserving intoxicated patrons who later caused motor vehicle collisions, “demonstrating a continued pattern of reckless disregard for public safety and foreseeability of harm to third parties,” the suit said.
The bar was named in a similar suit in April and again in August also alleging the overserving of alcohol to customers.
Alvey was arrested and charged with driving under the influence on June 29, 2025, after causing a collision with the vehicle driven by the Crowder family. The crash occurred about 7 p.m. as the family drove northbound on U.S. 17 Business in Murrells Inlet. Alvey was driving at a high rate of speed when he struck the plaintiff’s vehicle head-on, causing significant bodily injuries to the Crowder family, the suit says.
The suit is asking for a jury trial and damages related to the crash.