Tennessee Injury Lawyer Blog

For the first-time in four years, traffic fatalities rose in Tennessee as the 2010 mark exceeded the number of traffic-related fatalities in Tennessee in 2009. According to reports, fatalities rose more in rural areas than urban ones, with the increase being attributed to a lower seat-belt usage rate in the rural areas. Law enforcement officials also cited an increase in multiple-fatality wrecks as being a cause for the rise in traffic fatalities this year.

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Police say a Newport woman is to blame for a Tuesday night crash on Alcoa Highway that sent the woman and her passenger to the hospital. According to reports, authorities believe that forty-five year-old Tammy Trentham of Newport was driving her 1999 Ford Explorer southbound on Alcoa Highway when she decided to attempt an illegal u-turn to head northbound. She was reportedly attempting to cross all lanes of southbound traffic when she pulled into the path of thirty-one year-old Melissa Turner of Knoxville who was driving a 2003 Dodge pickup truck belonging to the truck's passenger, off-duty police officer Steven Kaufman. Trentham was taken to UT Medical Center in critical condition and there has been no update on her condition as of yet.

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Rare as it may be, there are hundreds of auto accidents that take place every year for which none of the parties actually involved in the crash can be held responsible. The most common form of this type of accident is one that is weather-related. Tennessee recently experienced a couple of severe winter storm systems that resulted in icing and dangerous driving conditions on many of Tennessee's roads and backroads. Drivers who hit ice, especially black ice, may find themselves in wrecks that involve other vehicles and drivers, but it may be nature that is at fault and there may be nothing any of the drivers involved could have done to avoid the accident.

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