Category: Car Accidents
Over the last several days, safety experts and public health professionals from around the country have gathered here in Tennessee for the 2014 National Lifesavers Conference on Highway Safety Priorities. For those unfamiliar with this 32-year-old event, held at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, it is essentially a conference “dedicated to reducing the […]
The last several years have seen rather encouraging developments here in Tennessee concerning the overall number of fatal traffic accidents. For instance, 2011 and 2013 saw the lowest and second-lowest fatalities, respectively, since 1963, while 2012 saw the third-lowest fatalities over that same timeframe. In recognition of this progress and in an interest to continue […]
There is a very good chance that if you were to travel for only a few miles on any interstate highway here in Tennessee that you would soon encounter some sort of roadside memorial meant to serve the dual purpose of commemorating the loss of a loved one and reminding motorists to drive safely. While […]
When March rolls around, a lot of people start thinking about summer. Although some warmer days might get our hopes up, it’s a month when just one more of those winter storms could hit. That was certainly the case this March when a storm swept through laying tons of snow and ice on Tennessee roads. […]
We tend to think of serious and even fatal car accidents as somehow being confined to the seemingly endless road and highway systems crisscrossing both the state and the nation. While this is true for the most part, it’s important to understand that accidents can and do occur in other locations, including driveways, parking lots, […]
Every January, the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security releases a series of preliminary figures outlining the number of motor vehicle accident fatalities in the state over the course of the last year. While these figures can sometimes prove to be rather discouraging, this year’s data actually shows that road safety may be improving […]
It often seems as if every time you log onto the Internet that you are bombarded with news items discussing some seemingly random set of rankings or ratings. From electronics and cars to restaurants and universities, there is virtually no topic that is immune to this level of scrutiny. Indeed, several groups have recently released […]
The Tennessee Highway Patrol recently issued a warning to drivers to be on the lookout for a certain type of danger as they make their way on the roads and highways this fall and coming winter season. Here, the danger of which they are warning is not speeding, distracted driving or even drunk driving, but […]
The unfortunate reality is that if you pick up a newspaper or access a local news site on a Monday morning, there is a very good chance that you will read a story outlining how a drunk driving accident over the weekend claimed the lives of innocent motorists or caused them life-altering personal injuries. While […]
A Tennessee man was severely burned after a car drove into an Exxon station and struck a gas pump on the Fourth of July. The pump exploded, sending flaming gasoline throughout the station. A man who was walking past the pump at the time of the accident caught fire. Luckily the man rolled to help […]