Woman Pulled Over for Driving With Hood Up
This blog has discussed many different methods of negligent driving, but today’s subject is one is a completely new one. A fifty-three year-old woman from England was pulled over this week by policemen who spotted that she was driving down the road while the hood of her car was unlatched and covering her windshield. The woman had reportedly been using the four inch gap between the hood and the dashboard to look out at the road while she was driving. As luck would have it, local law enforcement officers were conducting a safety campaign to educate people about bad driving when they pulled the woman over. The woman told police that she was trying to drive her car to the mechanic to be repaired, which was probably true, but it was to no avail.
Tennessee law determines that negligent driving occurs any time a person drives in a manner that a reasonably prudent driver would not. Thus, any time you are driving in a situation where you cannot see the road ahead of you, you are driving negligently because a reasonably safe driver would not drive in such a condition. It will probably be of little help to the driver in the situation above that she had a valid excuse, because that does little to change the fact that she was indeed driving her car even though it was in a condition that was unsafe for driving, posing a danger to herself and other drivers on the roadway. Had the lady caused an accident in Tennessee by driving in such a manner, she very likely would have been responsible for the damages and injuries sustained by those involved in the wreck, even in spite of the fact that she was attempting to take the car to get it fixed.
