Never Run From The Bluelights

My prayers go out to the family and friends of a Halls, Tennessee man involved in a roadway departure crash on Andersonville Pike at McCloud Road around 3:30 a.m. the other day. The driver lost control for some unknown reason, left the road, and crashed into a tree. The man was trapped inside the vehicle, and is not known at this time, whether he died as the result of the crash or the fire..

The local media report says that the man was involved in a high-speed pursuit with a THP patrol unit that had given up the chase when he lost sight of the fleeing man’s car. As an experienced Tennessee auto accident attorney, without other facts, I would say that the crash was caused by an impaired, speeding driver.

Law enforcement officers often have to enter into a high speed pursuit of criminal suspects. Other times, police are required to respond quickly to a crime in progress. Many times, innocent bystanders are injured as a result of a police chase or accident with a police car.

Cases like this a hard and require an experienced automobile accident attorney to analyze the facts. Many times these car chases can be more dangerous to innocent citizens when balanced against the law enforcement necessity. In domestic dispute calls the police usually know the identity of wanted man and can call off the chase knowing that they will be able to find him eventually.

An experienced lawyer will be able to review the facts of the accident and the policies of the department to determine if the officers acted negligently, thereby causing the crash. If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a police chase you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorneys a Phillip Miller & Associates and have a thorough case review to determine your rights. Call 615-356-2000.

Why Did She Leave The Road and Why Didn"t She Buckle Up?

Nashville East Precinct officers reported a fatal roadway departure crash at approximately 11:30 p.m. this past Wednesday. The facts in a local media report are scarce as to a possible cause, but the woman left eastbound Briley Parkway, went down and embankment onto a street below.

She was ejected from the vehicle, which means she was most probably not wearing her seat belt. She was dead at the scene of the accident. Although police reported no evidence of drug or alcohol use, blood tests will determine if one or the other were involved. Our prayers go out to the family and friends of this young woman.

This tragedy brings to mind several important issues of highway safety. The first and most obvious, what distraction caused the driver to drift off of the roadway creating the need to over-correct? The second is that this woman may well have survived had she taken the few seconds to buckle-up her seat belt.

For more information about highway safety and some good accident prevention tips go to my website at www.seriousinjury.com.  If you need further information and or the advice of a group of experienced Tennessee automobile accident lawyers call Phillip Miller & Associates for the answers.

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.