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7/8/2009
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Drunk Bass Boat Operator Kills Woman on Kentucky Lake

A Murfreesboro woman and mother was killed July 2 while pontooning with her family on Kentucky Lake. A bass boat, reported to be going as much as 40 mph slammed into the pontoon boat at 5:50 p.m.  The operator of the bass boat, David Phelps age 37 was given a field sobriety test and charged with boating under the influence.

At impact both the 47 year old mother and her 16 year old daughter were thrown out of the pontoon boat. The mother could not be revived, the 16 year old was life flighted to Vanderbilt.

Mr. Phelps was by himself in his bass boat, and apparently getting an early start on the 4th of July holiday.  There is just no excuse for a 37 year old man being so incredibly irresponsible, and it's probably not the first time he has acted in this way. Drunk and running full out on a lake with other boats that cannot possibly get out of your way?  And then hitting someone broadside in daylight conditions?  When people ask me "What is a wrongful death claim?", this is an example. For more information about wrongful death see here. For more information about this event, click here.

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    36-year-old Benny Ray Lawson of Goodlettsville, TN was killed in a single car crash on Saturday, August 14 according to the Cleveland Daily Banner. Lawson, who was driving a 1998 Ford Mustang was the only one in the car at the time of the accident, and was thrown from the car during the incident said the [...]
    Two Beech High School students have died as a result of a car crash involving two cars on Friday, August 6 on Long Hollow Pike around 3:30 according to The Hendersonville Star News. Two boys were both riding in a 1993 Toyota, that was driven by one of the boy’s older brother, when the car crossed [...]
    A wreck that occurred around 3 p.m. on Sunday August 8 on North Greenhill Road in Mt. Juliet took the life of a 16 year old girl, according to The Wilson Post. She was a junior at Wilson Central High School, was a passenger in the 2003 Mercury Mountaineer pickup at the time of the wreck, [...]
    A tractor trailer gas tanker carrying around 7400 gallons of diesel fuel crashed on Tuesday, August 9 in the early morning when the driver ran into a 2000 Pontiac Sunfire who was stopped on the left side of the road after blowing a tire, according to WBIR Knoxville. The wreck occurred while the tractor trailer was [...]
    An 18 year old male was killed in a Tennessee car wreck during the early morning of Sunday, August 8, when his 2001 Chevy Blazer crashed on the interstate exit ramp to State Route 840 in Rutherford Country according to the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro. The Murfreesboro man’s SUV flipped multiple times after exiting the [...]
    I received a call from a angry woman who was upset that this blog included information from a police report involving a DUI driver who killed a woman in a Tennessee car accident on I-40 more than a year ago. The blog restated what was in the police report, including the name of the driver [...]
    On May 13 a 57 year old woman was killed in a Nashville car wreck on I 40.  A black SUV is suspected as having hit her in the rear and causing her to lose control. If you have information about a Black SUV that was on the scene on this date, please contact the [...]
    Tennessee car accidents often involve DUI drivers or drivers who have been using drugs. It’s rare that they admit what they did or take responsibility. That’s why your best choice is to hire a Tennessee attorney familiar with Tennessee automobile accident law and cases against drunk or drugged drivers. A recent case of ours involved a client [...]
    Car accidents in Tennessee are a fact of life, but serious injury and death can be avoided when seat belts are used. Although seat belts are mandatory safety equipment, and are present in any vehicle involved in a Tennessee auto accident, they are not always in use at the time of the collision. It’s not that Tennessee [...]
    Tennessee truck accidents are just like car wrecks, right?  Well they do involve vehicles on roadways, but that is where the similarity ends. Finding out what happened and how in any truck accident can be very difficult. The truck driver almost always denies liability, and digging out the important information requires a lawyer to understand the [...]
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