Game Day Driving: Use Caution to Prevent Auto Accidents
Every year, Tennessee hosts about eight football games at Neyland Stadium. Over 100,000 people from all over Tennessee and alumni across the nation make their annual homage to Big Orange country. An unfortunate consequence, however, is heavy traffic congestion and reckless driving. While most drivers exercise care on game day, some drivers unfamiliar with the area make bad driving decisions, putting themselves and other drivers at risk for a Tennessee car wreck. There are also many young and inexperienced drivers and inebriated and impaired drivers on the road on game day that fail to exercise caution and fail to obey Tennessee’ rules of the road. As a result, downtown drivers are often involved in major motor vehicle wrecks.
Here is the Tennessee football schedule for home games this year:
- September 5 (Western Kentucky)
- September 12 (UCLA)
- September 26 (Ohio)
- October 3 (Auburn)
- October 10 (Georgia)
- October 31 (South Carolina)
- November 7 (Memphis)
- November 21 (Vanderbilt)
Some roads and highways where you should exercise special care before or after a home game, include:
- Interstates 40, 75 and 640
- Alcoa Highway
- Chapman Highway
- Cumberland Avenue
- Volunteer Avenue
- Western Avenue
- Henley Street
- Neyland Drive
- Main Street
- Gay Street
- Broadway Avenue
Where there’s a motor vehicle wreck, there’s a remedy for the innocent driver. If you’ve been injured in a Tennessee car wreck before or after a game, you may have a claim for damages against the negligent driver. Consult a Knoxville motor vehicle accident attorney at Baker Associates for more information.
