No one thinks that they are going to be in a wreck. As a an attorney who specializes in representing victims of drunk drivers, I see lots of cases involving everyday people whose lives are suddenly changed by someone who should never have been on the road.  These impaired drivers are not always limited to alcohol consumption, it’s not uncommon to see alcohol use along with pills and other drugs.  A wreck that happened in June illustrates the insane, irresponsible people who are driving every day on our streets.  On  June 22, 2009 there was a single vehicle accident just after 10p.m. The driver, Samantha Johnson veered off Harding Place and hit a telephone pole. Her passenger was killed.  Ms. Johnson claimed that she had hydroplaned and lost control due to water on the road. Water may have contributed the wreck, but what happened earlier is the scary part.

Both Ms. Johnson and her boyfriend had been at his mother’s house earlier that evening, taking pills and drinking. The mother of the deceased boyfriend, had given Samantha some powerful prescription medication – Oxycontin. Apparently she thought it was ok to give someone who was drinking some of her prescription medication, and then let her and her son take off driving the streets of Nashville. Ms. Johnson claimed that her boyfriend was driving after they left his mother’s house, but he was so drunk that he had driven the wrong way on the interstate, had struck a wall, and he had hit a tree in the 100 Oaks Mall parking lot.

For those of you thinking you wouldn’t possibly run into people like this, they wrecked on a Monday night – near a mall.

Phillip Miller is a Tennessee Accident Attorney specializing in
Tennessee Auto Accidents, Tennessee Truck Accidents, Tennessee Wrongful Death, and Tennessee Motorcycle Accident cases.

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