Nashville Automobile Accident Lawyer Shares The Facts About A Near Fatal Accident Involving An Elderly Driver
Elderly Driver Hazards
Accident investigators in Dickson County Tennessee will have to unravel a mystery when they seek to determine why an elderly woman simply failed to stop when she approached four cars stopped at a stop sign. When faced with a case like this police and experienced Tennessee automobile accident lawyers look to several different things that might explain such an accident. Those two main things are medical emergency and distractions.
As our population ages we might expect to see more Tennessee automobile accidents caused by drivers who suffer medical emergencies while they are driving. Incidences of drivers who had crashes precipitated by their medical emergencies while driving are relatively rare and account for only 1.3 percent of all road fatalities.
Older Tennessee drivers have relatively higher incidences of crashes precipitated by drivers’ medical emergencies when compared to young and middle-age drivers. Drivers in crashes precipitated by medical emergencies were more likely than other drivers to be severely injured or to die as a result of the crash.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration driver inattention is the leading factor in most crashes. Nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention within three seconds before the event. Primary causes of driver inattention are distracting activities, such as cell phone use, talking with passengers and drowsiness.
My prayers go out to the driver and all of the people injury in this serious accident with my hopes for a quick recovery. If you or a loved one is injured and killed in a Tennessee auto accident you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates and find out about your rights and remedies.
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