Nashville Automobile Attorney Looks At Senseless Drunk Driving Tractor-Trailer Accident In Memphis
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As an experienced Nashville automobile accident attorney I can tell you for certain that when you have a driver under the influence of alcohol, one who has had previous driving infractions serious enough to have had her license revoked, driving on a major interstate highway going the wrong way, that there will not be a good outcome.
Reference an article on the website of Memphis TV station WMC-TV which reports that this very scenario took place on I-40 just West of Memphis. The 37-year-old female driver barreling down the highway in the wrong direction hit a tractor-tanker truck and then a tractor-trailer. Debris from the crashes then struck a Honda Accord, leaving the drunk driver trapped in her vehicle. Fortunately for her, no one died in this senseless Tennessee automobile accident.
Drunk driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes. Here in Tennessee in 2008, 327 people were killed in crashes where the driver or motorcyclist had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. That is down from 377 people killed in 2007 with a BAC of .08 or higher.
Every day, 36 people in the United States die, and approximately 700 more are injured, in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion.3 But there are effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving.
If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident caused by a drunk driver you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident lawyers at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation to find out about your rights and remedies.
Phillip Miller is a Tennessee Accident Attorney specializing in
Phillip has an AVVO rating of 10.0 (Superb), has been designated as a “Superlawyer”, and is the President Elect of the Tennessee Association for Justice.
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