Nashville Car Crash Lawyer Reports On Tennessee Drunk Driving Accident That Caused Power Outage For 300 Homes
Drunk Driving Crash With Collateral Damage
As an experienced Tennessee automobile accident attorney I have investigated thousands of car accidents over the several decades of my practice. I’m always amazed at the amount of damage an out of control automobile can cause. A recent one-car crash in Sevierville Tennessee brought that to mind. A woman driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, looses control, leaves the road and shears off a power pole and ends up over 100 yards off of the road in a pasture.
The woman was unhurt and was walking to the road when the Tennessee State Trooper arrived at the scene. The Trooper described the scene as looking like a comet had landed. He went on to say that the grass along the path of the car was burning and the car appeared buried in a crater. The main damage was that over three hundred residences in the area lost power for over four hours. Collateral damage.
The drunk driver was wearing a seat belt and her car’s air bag deployed likely kept her from being more seriously injured. She was jailed for DUI, and speeding.
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 or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident casued by a drunk driver you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Tennessee automobile accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates for a free consultation to determine your rights and remedies.
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