Habitual Traffic Offenders Take Each Other Out

East Tennessee wreck takes two habitual traffic offenders off the road. A 37-year-old man from Gray, Tennessee, who is not a stranger to driving drunk (three DUI convictions) and who still doesn’t get it, was driving drunk and drifted across the center line and slammed head-on into a vehicle driven by another habitual traffic offender, who, no surprise here, was also driving without a license.

Neither of the men were seriously injured but as an experienced Tennessee automobile accident attorney, I’m hoping the traffic judge puts some serious pain, in a legal sense on them both. I also hope the DA looks into ownership of the vehicles involved and takes action to punish the owners who allowed these men to get behind the wheel.

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.

With records like these two have created over the years, I doubt either of them have insurance, so any recovery in an accident like this one is going to have to come in other ways. This is why you need an experienced, certified civil trial lawyer handle your case.

If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Nashville automobile accident by a drunk driver contact the experienced Nashville certified personal injury attorney’s at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation so that you can get a complete picture of your rights and remedies.

He Ran The Light Doing 70 MPH

A Bartlett Tennessee man wasn’t feeling any pain and he wasn’t using his brain when he got behind the wheel of his motor vehicle back in 2009. He had already had problems with drinking and driving and was well aware that he didn’t have a valid drivers license.

He was driving 70 mph in downtown Memphis at 2 AM when he ran a red light and ran over and killed a 37-year-old Alabama man. While he was out on bond, even after he had killed an man, he was busted for possession of drugs.

Last week he pled guilty to vehicular homicide involving intoxication, driving on a revoked license and to charges of drug possession. His sentencing is coming up soon and it is expected that he is going to catch some serious pen time. My prayers go out to the family and friends of this man and I also hope that the driver will somehow find himself and get out from the slavery of drugs and alcohol.

If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident caused by a drunk driver you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Nashville auto accident lawyers at Phillip Miller & Associates.

Teen Collisions

He was 16 and had no license or insurance but that didn’t stop the young man from getting behind the wheel of his 1993 Dodge Voyager and taking to the streets of Church Hill Tennessee. According to an article on the website of the Johnson City Press he made a turn directly into the path of a car driven by Janet W. Christian, 69, and her passengers Thomas Christian, 69 and Annie Salyer, 53, who were driving to morning service at the at the First Baptist Church. They were transported to a local hospital with injuries related to the airbag deployment. My heart goes out to these victims of a crime that should not have happened.

The young man was uninjured and was cited for driving without a license, failure to provide proof of insurance and failure to yield. His guardian told police that the boy had taken the car without permission. This young man was very lucky he wasn’t a fatality statistic.

According to The Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three deaths in this age group. In 2005, twelve teens ages 16 to 19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries. The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16- to 19-year-olds than among any other age group. In fact, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than older drivers to crash. In 2005, the motor vehicle death rate for male drivers and passengers ages 16 to 19 was more than one and a half times that of their female counterparts.

In the United States during 2005, 4,544 teens ages 16 to 19 died of injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes. In the same year, nearly 400,000 motor vehicle occupants in this age group sustained nonfatal injuries that required treatment in an emergency department.

Young people ages 15-24 represent only 14% of the U.S. population. However, they account for 30% ($19 billion) of the total costs of motor vehicle injuries among males and 28% ($7 billion) of the total costs of motor vehicle injuries among females.

These situations create a serious problem for victims. The offending driver has no insurance and they have to rely on their own policy to compensate them for their medcial and hospital expenses as well as any permanent injuries they might have sustained. This kind of case calls for an experienced automobile accident attorney to explore the possibility of an action against the Guardian for failing in his/her responsibility to prevent the child from gaining access to the vehicle.

If you or a loved one is injured in a Nashville automobile accident involving a teenager contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorney’s at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation to find out about your rights and remedies.