Booze and Motorcycles Don't Mix

I’m not sure what it is about having a few “tall drinks” before a guy gets on a high-powered motorcycle, but the outcome is hardly ever good. A high-speed motorcycle ride through Johnson City on Interstate 26 landed an Elizabethton man in jail early Tuesday morning on DUI, reckless endangerment and evading arrest charges.

Police arrested a 39-year-old Elizabethton man was arrested after police radar caught him traveling eastbound at 95 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-26. Police tried stopping him, but he kept going as he exited the interstate at mile marker 24. He was finally stopped on University Parkway at the city limits, according.

As police took him into custody they noticed an odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath, and his speech was slurred. He admitted that he had consumed two tall mixed drinks at Applebee’s. To top it off he didn’t have insurance as required by state law.

It’s people like this that put good drivers and pedestrians at risk. A little booze and a high speed crotch rocket and the man became a killer looking for a victim. Our thanks go out to the Johnson City police officers that safely removed this guy from the roads.

If you or a loved one is injured or killed by drunk irresponsible driver contact the experienced Nashville auto accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates. This driver had no insurance but this doesn’t mean that you would be unable to be compensated for your injuries. A good lawyer would know to look to the restaurant that served the man the drinks under what is known as the Dram Shop Law. Call 615-356-2000.

As an experienced Nashville automobile accident lawyer, my first thought when I read about a Tennessee automobile accident involving a driver going the wrong way on divided highway, is that the driver was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Now I didn’t know Michael Doe Folden of Johnson City and there is little information other than the fact that he was driving the wrong way on a divided expressway around 9:30 PM near the entrance of he Elizabethton County Club when he rammed into a car driven by Wendy Watson, her husband and her 14-year-old daughter, but I feel there’s a good chance he was DUI.

Mr. Folden died at the scene and the condition of the Watson’s is unknown at the time of this writing. As an experienced Tennessee automobile accident attorney the main thing that I would focus on would be Mr. Folden’s activities in the hours preceding the collision. An important question is whether he was drinking and where. Was he a member or guest at the Country Club? My prayers go out to the family and friends of Mr. Folden and I pray for a complete and speedy recovery for the Watson’s.

Hopefully for the Watson’s, Mr. Folden had insurance, but I would take a good look at any establishment that had served him alcohol. Dramshop refers to a bar, tavern or the like where alcoholic beverages are sold. Traditionally, it referred to a shop where spirits were sold by the dram, a small unit of liquid. Dramshop laws establish liability arising out of the irresponsible sale of alcohol to obviously intoxicated persons or minors who subsequently cause death or injury to third-parties as a result of alcohol-related accidents.

If you or a loved one is injured in a Tennessee car crash caused by a drunk driver you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates and find out about your rights.