No License Don't Drive

It’s not a good idea to loan your car to a teenager who has already forfeited his privileges to drive. If you are the teenager who has forfeited his license and you borrow a car to go get cigarettes at 3 AM, it’s not a smart move to speed. If you are that same teenager and the police try to stop you for speeding on city streets it’s way not smart to try and evade them at high speeds.

That’s just what happened the other night in Kingsport Tennessee. While attempting to flee the police this 18-year-old man lost control and wrecked his friends car in a ditch. Instead of have a second count of driving on a suspended license, this young man now faces charges of felony evading arrest, leaving the scene of an accident and driving on a suspended license.

When a driver decides to flee police and enter into a game of high-speed cat and mouse with law enforcement he decides to put the lives of other drivers and pedestrians in danger so that he can stay out of jail. As an experienced Nashville automobile accident attorney, I can tell you that the vast majority of drivers who attempt to flee are caught or wreck first like this guy and are then caught.

If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee auto accident caused by a fleeing driver collecting damages may be tricky and you owe it to yourself to contact the Nashville automobile accident attorney’s at Phillip Miller & Associates.

Get These Bad Drivers Off The Road

It seems that lately I’ve been blogging more about incidents involving people who need to be taken off of the road for the safety of the driving public. For the most part the people involved in these incidents have already had a number of  run-ins with the law leading to the suspension of their driving privileges. In a recent article in the Kingsport Times-News we are introduced to another of these driving menaces. Reference Anthony Lee Davis, 27, 126 N. Shepard Drive, Kingsport, who has previously had his drivers license suspended, and who, after deep thought and consideration, gets behind the wheel of a car with a loud muffler, a police magnet if you will, and ventures out for a ride to cool off after arguing with his wife, onto the streets of Kingport, Tennessee.

An event occurs, totally unforeseen by the deep thinking Mr. Davis, in which a police officer attempts to stop his vehicle because of the loud muffler. After further deep thinking Mr. Davis pitchs his cigarette out at the feet of the officer, rolls up his window and speeds away. The officer begins the pursuit of Davis’ vehicle but makes the decision to call off the chase on the basis of public safety when the fleeing vehicle reaches speeds in excess of 80 m.p.h.

Other local police agencies were on the lookout for Mr. Davis and within ten minutes the original officer gets word that the subject of his chase had wrecked his car outside the city limits. When questioned he admitted he fled the scene and pled the fact that he was upset with his wife as the reason he made the decision to put the lives of others in jeopardy. Kingsport Police filed an affidavit charging Davis with a violation of the muffler law, reckless endangerment,  reckless driving, felony evading arrest, and driving on a revoked license.

It’s people like Davis and the thousands of other Tennessee drivers like him who have lost their privileges to drive a motor vehicle because they make bad choices and who flaunt the law that our insurance rates in Tennessee are what they are. If you as an individual citizen want to get involved to keep people like this off the road there are two things we can do. The first thing is to learn the Tennessee Rules of The Road and obey them. If you are following the rules and stopping at red lights and driving the speed limit, local and state police officers are free to deal with the Mr. Davis’ of the world. The second thing that we can do is to talk to your neighbors about this problem and make sure your public officials, such as your local District Attorney General, feel anger over this kind of business and seek serious penalties and other remedies that will keep them from getting behind the wheel of a car.

If you are a loved one are injured in a Tennessee car accident by someone like Mr. Davis contact our experienced Nashville accident lawyers

and find out about your rights and remedies.