Tennessee Auto Accident Attorney Reviews The Numbers On Tennessee Elderly Driver Fatal Accidents
Elderly Driver Fatality
As an experienced Nashville automobile accident attorney my experience tells me that when elderly person is involved in a roadway departure crash there is a high probability that the accident was caused by a medical emergency. Reference a crash this week in Knoxville in which an 83-year-old lost control of her car in the parking lot of a grocery store. He car raced out of the lot, across a street into a residential backyard and down into a six-foot embankment. Investigators haven’t released the final report but did say that they didn’t believe that drugs or alcohol were contributing factors.
According to a recent study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, older drivers face substantially elevated risk of being involved in and responsible for crashes in which they themselves die, and they pose more risk to other road users than the lowest-risk drivers do; however, the degree to which older drivers’ risk to other road users is elevated depends strongly upon whether risk is being measured on a per-driver, per-trip, or per-mile basis.
For example, the results of this study suggest that if a randomly-selected driver in his or thirties and a randomly-selected driver aged 85 or older were to drive equal numbers of miles, the older driver would be over 1500% more likely than the younger driver to be responsible for and die as a result of a crash, and about 220% more likely than the younger driver to kill an occupant of another vehicle or a non-motorist.
If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident involving an elderly driver you owe it to yourself to contact the experienced Tennessee car accident attorney’s at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation to learn about your rights and remedies.
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