Drunk Driver Tries To Run

Many times we have spoken of the danger that our brave police officers face as they go about their business of making the highways and byways safe for you and I. A recent incident on this past Friday brings home that point in spades.

Two Nashville police offices were working a traffic stop near the Hickory Hollow Mall around 1 a.m. when another driver sped by at a high rate of speed and came within inches of hitting one of the officers. But for the quick action of his partner in pulling him out of the way, the people of Nashville might well have lost one of their finest.

Instead of stopping when the officers got into pursuit this guy compounds his trouble by refusing to stop. Thinking he could outrun the police, this bozo reaches speeds of up to 85 MPH before the inevitable loss of control and a high speed crash into an innocent tree at the corner of Apache Trail and Bart Drive.

We here at Phillip Miller & Associates are thankful for the work of these brave officers and are pleased that they were not injured. We don’t know anything about the driver but in my experience as a Nashville automobile accident attorney, I’d bet the ranch that the guy was drunk, and because of previous drinking and driving problems did not have a drivers license or insurance. Good work and congratulations to these brave officers who were just doing their jobs.

If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Nashville automobile accident caused by a drunk driver, contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident lawyers at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation.

Driver Rolls The Dice Craps Out

As an experienced tennessee car crash lawyer I would think that after receiving three speeding tickets most thinking people get the point. I had better slow down or I’m going to have more tickets, thousands of dollars in fines and court costs and at some point I’m going to lose my drivers license. I have choices. I can continue to drive in excess of the speed limit and suffer the consequences or I can leave earlier and drive the speed limit so I don’t have negative consequences and be late.

And then there are those, best described as non-thinkers, like Mr. Matthew Glenn Piatt of Kingsport, Tennessee. It appears that Mr. Pruitt did in fact have three speeding tickets in a short period of time and yet the guy chooses to drive with a non-functioning headlight and guess what? The police officer does what he is charged to do, he lights up his roof rack to pull over Mr. Piatt’s vehicle and issue him a ticket. Once again, I ask, what does a reasonable thinking man do? Well, we have already established the Mr. Piatt might not fall into that category but when you hear what he then does your going to find certainty in your opinion.

The rack lights of the Patrol Car go on and Mr. Pruitt doesn’t want to get another ticket so he takes off and tries to out-run the Patrol Car. The officer follows clocking Mr. Piatt at 90 mph in a zone marked 45 mph. He runs a red light narrowly missing another car before deciding that he might ought to pull over. When questioned by the arresting officer the driver told the officer he had been stopped three times recently and he didn’t want another ticket and he did not have insurance on his vehicle.

Well, he still got a couple of tickets, one for no insurance and the other for speeding but that was topped of with a count of felony evading and reckless driving. If I were a betting man I wouldn’t be that this guy was going to get. Not even after this experience.