Nashville car accident lawyers will tell you that high speed and sudden lane changes on any of our local Interstate highways can be a toxic mix. I-24, I-40, and I-65 are heavily travelled, in and outside of Nashville. Luckily for three Tennesseans this car crash left them with only minor injuries, but it could have been far more serious. Judy Baines of North Carolina was driving East on I-40 when she pulled into an adjacent lane to avoid being struck by another vehicle. Unfortunately for her and Dannisha Davis and her two children, the Davis vehicle was already in the lane. Obviously Baines failed to check her rearview mirror before she switched lanes. The Davis car was forced into the median and rolled several times. The children aged seven and eleven were taken to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital by helicopter while their mother was taken by ambulance to the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Wrecks in Nashville and throughout Tennessee occur every day, often with tragic circumstances. Speed and lane changes are the cause of many unnecessary wrecks.

As a Nashville and Tennessee car accident lawyer I have been paying particular attention to attempts by the state and municipal governments in Tennessee to promote and insure public safety in the area of car accidents. As more and more cities in Tennessee are installing what has become known as “red light cameras” recent statistics are starting to show that the program, originally touted as a safety measure, might well be less about traffic safety then it is about filling the coffers of the government. The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro and the Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported that after twelve months of operation side-impact car crashes decreased from seventy-one to sixty-three while the number of rear-end car crashes actually increased by 24%.

During this same period a total of 19,995 citations were issued resulting in a total of $1.3 million in fines and penalties. Tennessee car accident lawyers are well aware of the fact that if all drivers followed the rules of the road and practiced a modicum of courtesy that car accidents in Tennessee would decline dramatically.