Craig Sinard, a truck driver from Dandridge Tennessee is a Good Samaritan. I’m sending a shout out his way and hope he has a speedy recovery from his injuries incurred as he was trying to pull an injured motorist from his wrecked car on I-24. 

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According to an article on the website of WATE TV in Knoxville, Sinard was driving his tractor-trailer along I-24 when he came upon a wrecked vehicle in the fast lane. He immediately pulled over and used his CB radio to get other truckers to form a roadblock to protect the man trapped in the car. Fellow truckers did block traffic and a call went out to the THP and local first responders. Everything was going well, Sinard was able to pull the injured man from his vehicle and get him to the shoulder to wait for an ambulance.

Sounds good so far, but then an impatient drunk driver drove around the tractor-trailer road block and raced off down the shoulder. He hit Sinard at about 50 mph. Sinard remembers the crash and being thrown under the man’s pickup. He spent four days in the hospital with a broken foot, sprained ankle, fractured wrist and dislocated shoulder. The pickup driver was arrested and charged with drunk driving. According to Murfreesboro Police the original injured driver was in serious but stable condition.

Sinard told reporters, “I’d stop again. If you drive by and see somebody sitting there getting ready to possibly get killed and you have a chance to save them, wouldn’t you help them?” What a guy!

The next time you complain about a tractor-trailer driver on an Interstate just remember Gary Sinard and the other unnamed truckers who joined together and saved a life. When you have a chance give the next trucker you meet a smile, a hand-shake and a big thank you. Also remember the totally selfish, uncaring drunk driver who put himself ahead of everything and everyone else. If you live in or around Rutherford County you might want to drop The Honorable Willian Whitesell, District Attorney General a line at (615) 898-8008 and let him know how you feel about the drunk driver who nearly killed a good decent man.

If you are a loved one is injured in a Nashville car tractor-trailer accident involving a drunk driver 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.