Seven Tennessee Women Die In Firey Head-On Collision
Seven Tennessee women died in an automobile accident in Lewis County, Tennessee, forty miles south of Nashville, this past weekend when a single passenger vehicle crossed a yellow line and rammed head-on into a van carrying women on their way to work at a nearby factory. The 69-year-old driver of the car was dead at the scene and police said they had no idea what caused her to cross into the other vehicle. i send my sympathy and prayers to the families and friends of all of those injured or killed in this tragic accident.
Unfortunately, neither her family, nor the families of the victims will ever be able to answer that question for sure. As an experienced Nashville automobile accident attorney it’s clear that one of three things happened. The driver was either distracted by something in her car, a cell phone, radio, GPS device, or she just lost concentration and failed to focus on the task at hand, or she had some kind of medical emergency that caused her to lose control of her vehicle.
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, and drowsiness.
According to a survey conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 95% of respondents 55 and older have one or more medical conditions and 78% use one or more medications, yet only 28% indicated some awareness of the potential impact on driving performance associated with those medications.
The lesson to be learned following this accident is that no matter where we are going, down to the corner to the local store or cross-country, we have to be vigilant and never lose focus of the task at hand. If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident you owe it to your self to take advantage of a free consultation with one of the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorney’s at Phillip Miller & Associates
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