Driving Under the Influence
As a Nashville car accident lawyer I find nothing funny about someone getting behind the wheel of a car when one has been consuming alcohol. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence is a deadly decision which many times will have no serious consequences because the driver just doesn’t get caught. Not so for a 22 year old Knoxville woman who had some too many.
As a Knoxville police officer was responding to a high speed chase call the drunken driver made an illegal u-turn directly in front of the oncoming police vehicle impacting the officer’s patrol car in a side collision which resulted in his patrol car being pinned between her car and the guard rail at the intersection. The results; She is charged with drunken driving, failure to yield, as well as failing to have her car properly registered. She slept it off in the Knox County Jail and was released on bail the next day – the consequences in Nashville would probably have been the same. Are they severe enough? There is lots of public information about drunk driving, but too many people think “this doesn’t apply to me”. The truth is that for anyone who drinks, alcohol and driving is a serious problem that should never be taken lightly.
Phillip Miller is a Tennessee Accident Attorney specializing in
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