Drowsy or Sleepy Drivers Pull Over...Please

A recent Tennessee car crash caused me to ponder the problem of overtired or drowsy drivers on the highways in Tennessee. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you are driving a car and you are falling asleep that nothing good is going to come from that situation. It only makes sense that when you find yourself nodding off that you ought to pull over and rest, get a cup of coffee or get out of your vehicle and exercise to wake yourself.

The Kingsport TimesNews reported that a N.C. man on I-26 near Kingsport, Tennessee who had exercised reasonable care by pulling off the Interstate to answer a cell-phone call was crashed into by a driver who had fallen asleep while driving in the same direction. The Church Hill, Tennessee man told investigating officers that he must have dozed off prior to the collision.

I wonder what the odds are that you are pulled over in the emergency lane of an Interstate highway in rural Tennessee and another driver falls asleep at just the right time so that he drifts off of the highway directly into your vehicle. They have to be astronomical and that’s a good reminder of the dangers that await you when you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and head out onto the highways and by-ways of Tennessee.

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