Archive for December, 2010

Saturday, December 11^th, a woman and her family were driving northbound on I65 in Nashville, in the far left lane. According to eyewitnesses, she apparently lost control, and veered right, across three lanes of traffic and slammed into the rock wall along the edge of the interstate. Witnesses stopped, and waited for officials to arrive. While no one was seriously injured, it is being said that the driver of the car was trying to leave the scene of the accident, even though her Trail Blazer was unable to drive. As it turns out, the woman wanted to leave the scene because she had knocked over a light pole, and didn’t want to pay for it. Sadly, these types of incidents happen daily. People will leave the scene of an accident in fear of being in trouble, or having to pay fines. This site talks about how leaving the scene of an accident, fatal, injured, or not is a very serious crime. Please go here to read more about accidents involving leaving the scene in Tennessee.

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Drunk drivers were responsible for 303 deaths on Tennessee roads in 2009 with almost 1/3rd of all DUI’s being associated with a death. Often, the death is of the drunk driver – but not always.

Does it make any difference? Most drunk drivers have serious, untreated problems that push them to drink, and in our society using a car is critical to living a normal life. Drunk drivers are a seemingly inevitable consequence of living in a (relatively) free society.

What should we do?  One thing we do is sue the drunk driver to take away their means of transportation.  It’s a good way to intervene.  Every see full grown men riding bikes in street clothes and looking slightly uncomfortable about it?  At least some of those are people who have had 1 or more DUI convictions.

Fortunately, MADD through the Tennessee State legislature passed a law requiring an ignition interlock device whenever someone has a blood alcohol level about .15%, has a minor in the car, or was involved in a collision.  A copy of the kind of order a drunk driver might get can be seen here.

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Tennessee car 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.

Anyone who has a personal injury in Tennessee is familiar with the routine. Multiple doctors and prescriptions. Not all the doctors are equally familiar with your case. There is often a rush to document your case and move onto the next patient.

To make the process of documentation easier, it’s common to use abbreviations. In the non-medical world we use abbreviations as well. For example (the abbreviation for “for example” is e.g.) in the online world abbreviations like OMG, and LOL are known to millions.  The difference is that there is only one accepted  definition for LOL, while in the medical world, there are lots of people “making things up”.

The misuse of abbreviations has gotten to be such a problem that the Joint Commission on Accreditation has issued a “do not use” list of abbreviations that are likely to be misinterpreted and can put patients at risk. (see here)

One aspect of being a Nashville personal injury attorney is that I have to read medical records, lots of medical records, and it’s the abbreviations that drive me crazy – when one abbreviation is used differently in two different files, its’ up to me to figure out what really happened.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Tennessee, 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. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

A man was killed in a Nashville Tennessee car accident early Monday morning, December 6th. The accident happened around 7:30 am.  Reports are that  a man was driving  a Toyota Corolla south on Whites Creek pike, and a 29-year-old man driving a Chevy Blazer crossed over into his lane of traffic, causing a head on collision. The driver of the Corolla was pronounced dead at the scene.

Our condolences go out to this man’s family, this tragedy seems totally without reason.
Why did this accident even happen? Why did the Chevy Blazer cross the center line?Blood tests are being performed to know if the driver of either car was impaired. Were there other distractions involved?  Going to work on Monday morning, on a two lane road in Davidson County ought to be safe enough, but is it?

Dozens of people are involved in car accidents in Tennessee daily due to driver distractions and speeding. You can click here to read more about them.

Please click here to learn about what you can do to avoid accidents.

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Nashville  car accident, please contact Nashville personal 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.

1-800-377-HURT (4878)

www.seriousinjury.com