Drunk? Distracted? Does It Matter?

As an experienced Nashville automobile personal injury attorney I have reviewed thousands of Tennessee automobile accidents with, hopefully, an objective eye, looking to find the cause of the crash and setting about creating a plan to secure compensation for the victims. It’s not that I’ve become harden to the suffering, quite the contrary, I see very clearly the pain and suffering that follows such a tragic event.

A recent report of a Tennessee fatal automobile accident, unlike many others, has left me somewhat perplexed. It’s been on my desk for a week or so and I have thought about moving on and not using it in my Blog, “The Tennessee Auto Accident Attorney”, but the facts still haunt me.

The original story came from the web site of WBIR TV in Knoxville, Tennessee and it is short on facts, but in a nutshell, a 34-year-old man is heading south on a highway at a high rate of speed around midnight. The driver crossed the double yellow line and hit another car head-on. The driver of the other car and one of her passengers died at the scene and two othe passenger were life-flighted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in serious condition. My sympathy goes out to the family and friends of the deceased and my wishes for a speedy and complete recovery go to those who were injured.

In all three people lost their lives and I can’t seem to get the question, why did this happen, out of my mind. An autopsy of the 34-year-old- driver will show whether he had consumed drugs or alcohol, interviews with his friends and family might shed light on whether this was a suicide, a review of his cell phone records will show whether he was distracted using his cell phone, but whatever the reason, this incident goes along way to illustrating the point that driving under the influence or in a distracted state, in just the blink of an eye can take the life of a human being. It only takes a second of distraction to weave into the other lane or off of the roadway and into stationary objects.

The lesson here, for those of us who survived this tragic accident, is to avoid distractions and never get behind the wheel if you have been drinking. If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident involving a drunk or distracted driver you owe it to yourself and your family to contact the experienced Tennessee automobile accident lawyers at Phillip Miller & Associates and learn about your rights and remedies.