Archive for May, 2010

Tennessee truck accidents are just like car wrecks, right?  Well they do involve vehicles on roadways, but that is where the similarity ends.

Finding out what happened and how in any truck accident can be very difficult. The truck driver almost always denies liability, and digging out the important information requires a lawyer to understand the documentation required of all trucking companies, and the regulations that apply.

Trucking accidents are more common than you might believe.  380,000 trucks were involved in crashes in 2008. Over 4000 people were killed.

As an example, the hiring and supervision issues in a trucking case don’t exist in a typical car accident. The trucking company is required to investigate the driver, including their driving history. This means the lawyer in a Tennessee trucking case must understand and pursue all the things that the trucking company was required to do, as well as those things they should do if they want to operate safely.  ”Hours of Service” and driver logs can provide insights on what the driver really had been doing in the hours before the truck accident, and disclose the kinds of information the trucking company had but did nothing with.

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Nashville truck accident, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville  personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here.

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved.

Car accidents in Tennessee and elsewhere are often caused by teen drivers, but a recent article in the Wall Street Journal has some surprising data. As an example a recent survey of teenagers showed that 48% of girls said they are likely to speed at more than 10 mph over the speed limit, while only 35% of boys answered the same.

Auto accidents in Nashville and other cities are often caused by distracted drivers, and the data on young women drivers is bad. 84% of girls (vs. 69% of boys) admit to changing music/channels while driving. Even worse 23% admit to driving under the influence of alcohol.

Aggressive driving among young women has increased as well (16% now, up from 9% five years ago).

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Nashville  car accident, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Tennessee personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here.

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved.