Tennessee Good Samaritan Is Mowed Down By A Speeding Teen Driver
Good Samaritan Pedestrian Killed
Only the most selfish, cold-hearted kind of person would drive by the scene of a Tennessee automobile accident and refuse to offer help. Providing aide could be as small a thing as calling 911 emergency and staying in your vehicle at the scene until help arrives. The Tennessee Rules of the Road suggests that if we stop to aide another driver that we pull to the shoulder and activate our emergency signals. If we exit our vehicle to provide further assistance we should make every effort to be mindful of oncoming traffic.
On the other hand, as a driver we need to pay particular attention to vehicle flashing their emergency blinkers. We should slow immediately and engage our emergency blinkers as we slowly proceed upon the scene. Reference a terrible accident in McMinn County Tennessee in the early morning hours. It appears that Jeep had rolled over in the lane and another driver, a 25-year-old woman stopped to lend assistance. Enter a teenage driver driving a Camaro at a high rate of speed and hitting our Good Samaritan and killing her.
Speeding is one of the most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crashes. The economic cost of speeding-related crashes is estimated to be in excess of 40.4 billion dollars per year. In 2007, speeding was a contributing factor in 31 percent of all fatal crashes, and 13,040 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes. The total economic cost of crashes was estimated at $230.6 billion in 2000.
If you or a loved is seriously injured or killed in a Tennessee motor vehicle accident caused by a speeding driver you ought to contact the experienced Tennessee automobile accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation to find out about your rights and remedies.
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