Nashville Auto Accident Lawyer Reports On Drunk Driver Who Tried To Do The Right Thing But Died Anyway
Driving Drunk And No Seatbelt
It was 2 AM and he tried to do the right thing, turning his car keys over to another person when he realized that he had had too much to drink, but his good intentions cost him his life. You see, the 39-year-old Sevier County Tennessee man gave his keys to the woman he had been drinking with, and who was, according to local media reports, as drunk or drunker than he was.
His second, and probably his most fatal mistake, was that he failed to use his seatbelt, so when his friend veered off the road, overcorrected and hit a tree, he was killed.
As an experienced Nashville car accident lawyer I want to remind you that driving with a BAC of .08 or higher is illegal in every state. If you follow my blog you will see that in Tennessee we continue to see a tragic number of people with debilitating injuries and deaths as a result of impaired driving. This careless disregard for human life must stop.
Drunk driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes. 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. Over the 2008 Labor Day holiday, 12 people were killed in 10 fatal crashes on Tennessee roadways, down from 17 people killed on Tennessee roadways in 2007.
If you are a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee car accident caused by a drunk driver you owe it to yourself to contact an experienced Nashville auto accident lawyer like those at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation to find out about your rights and remedies.
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