Tennessee Injury Lawyer Blog

It goes without saying that interstate driving can be dangerous with so many cars traveling near each other at high rates of speed. Interstate wrecks often involve multiple cars and result in serious accidents. One such accident occurred around 2 p.m. on Saturday at mile marker 335 on Interstate 40 in Cumberland County, Tennessee. Police say a sixty-three year old woman was traveling east on I-40 when she tried to cross a median, hitting a tractor-trailer head-on that was hauling furniture, causing the tractor-trailer to explode. These two vehicles were then hit by a semi that tried to swerve but was unable to avoid the auto accident in East Tennessee. The lady who tried to cross the median was killed, and the two people in the truck that was hauling furniture were taken to the hospital, as was the driver of the semi.

This is a perfect example of the kind of negligent driving that leads to serious accidents and personal injury lawsuits. Behaving like a reasonably prudent driver clearly does not entail trying to make a u-turn across the median on a busy interstate absent some sort of special emergency that necessitates such a maneuver. Cars are simply traveling too fast in too close a proximity to each other to allow someone to slow down in the far left lane, safely drive across the grass, enter the traffic coming from the opposite direction, and quickly get up to a safe driving speed for traveling with traffic. There are very few situations in which executing this maneuver would not be considered negligent.