Truckers Who Drive Too Many Hours Can Be Liable for Negligence

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Tractor-Trailer Accident Kills Henry County Teen

A local high school student died on Saturday, August 20 when a tractor-trailer accident involving 9 cars occurred on I-75 in Henry County, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Seven other passengers of various cars involved in the accident received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities do not believe that drugs or alcohol were a factor in the multi-car accident. However, the driver of the tractor-trailer, Daniel Crane of Jemez Springs, New Mexico, had exceeded the number of hours the law allowed him to drive at the time of the accident.

Officials Charged Crane with Violating Commercial Vehicle Hours of Service

The Henry Herald reports that the deceased accident victim was Summer Anne Lee, 18,  a student at Locust Grove High School. Crane’s tractor trailer struck Lee’s vehicle from behind sometime between 10:30 and 11:00 am on Saturday morning. The collision pushed Lee’s car into the car in front of her, which led to a pileup that included the five vehicles in front of her. The crash also caused a fire, which first responders were able to extinguish. Local law enforcement officials charged Crane with vehicle manslaughter, following too closely and violating commercial vehicle hours of service.

Georgia’s Hours-of-Service Regulations Hold Truckers Liable for Violations

When a driver causes an accident that results in injuries, the victim can sue that driver for negligence. In a negligence lawsuit, the victim argues that the driver at fault failed to take reasonable care to avoid injuries to others. Usually, this means that they failed to follow the rules of the road.  Commercial vehicle operators have special regulations that govern their business, because their vehicles are much heavier and more dangerous to those around them. One type of special regulation for truck drivers is called an hours-of-service limit. An hours-of-service limit says how many hours at a time a driver can operate a commercial vehicle. The limits vary with the size of the vehicle. For example, if a vehicle weighs over 10,000 pounds, then the Georgia Department of Transportation says they can only drive for 11 hours after having 10 consecutive hours off-duty. If a truck driver violates one of these hours-of-service regulations, they may make them liable for an accident that occurs because of resulting fatigue.

Crane’s Hours-of-Service Violation Could Be Negligence

Could the survivors of Summer Anne Lee sue the truck driver Crane for negligence in a wrongful death lawsuit? They probably could. First of all, there’s plenty of evidence that Crane failed to take reasonable care to prevent injury to Lee. Law enforcement officials said he was following too close, and that alone could make him liable for an accident in which he collided with the car in front of him. On top of that, he was in violation of his hours-of-service limit. If the victim can show that there was a connection between the hours-of-service limit violation and the accident (for example, if Crane was fatigued and this caused the crash), then Crane and his employer would be liable for negligence.

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Theaters Without Metal Detectors May Be Liable for Negligent Security

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Atlanta’s Fox Theatre Announces New Metal Detector Policy

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta has decided to install a new security measure: metal detectors at the front entrances. With this move, the theatre hopes to mirror the practices of other entertainment venues in the region, including football and baseball stadiums. The theatre will begin using the metal detectors for shows during its summer film festival. The metal detectors will be looking for items that are already prohibited in the theatre. That list includes firearms, pocket knives, and utility tools.

More Venues Introduce Metal Detectors

The announcement comes the same week that the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln Nebraska announced its new metal detector policy, the Lincoln Journal-Star reports. It’s not just keeping up with the Joneses that’s motivating the Fox to tighten security.  According to manager Allan Vella, the theatre “can’t help but see what’s going on in the world.” The theatre will use 8 to 10 metal detectors in the arcade section of the theatre during a full house event. The process will require patrons to remove keys and other metal items from their pockets before undergoing metal detection. Each patron will probably spend between five and seven minutes going through the process.

Georgia Law Holds Landowners Responsible for Providing Security

One motivating factor for arenas and theatres to tighten security may be to reduce their liability for criminal acts that occur on the premises. Georgia law holds landowners responsible for taking reasonable care to prevent injuries to their guests and customers. This includes doing what they can to prevent foreseeable injuries from criminal acts. Courts usually ask whether the area around the premises is a high-crime area and whether crimes have occurred at that location in the past.

Theaters Without Metal Detectors May Be Liable for Negligent Security

But cinemas, theaters and stadiums may pose a special case. These types of public venues have been the site of numerous violent shootings and terrorist attacks over the past few years. In the context of such a situation, a court may find that a theater is the foreseeable location of a shooting or violent attack. If that’s true, then the venue has a responsibility to take reasonable measures to prevent an attack from happening.

Usually, reasonableness is measured by what other similar businesses are doing. In the case of the Fox Theatre, the reasonable thing is probably to install metal detectors, since this is quickly becoming the standard practice for public venues.  Most of the venues that are announcing the use of metal detectors are large sports arenas rather than live theater venues. However, a 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado made national headlines, and for this reason, a court might find that a shooting at a similar venue, like the Fox Theatre, might be foreseeable.

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Pool Accidents May Spell Liability for Property Owners

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Marietta Woman Walks for First Time in Years at Her Wedding

A Marietta woman who was paralyzed in a swimming pool accident was able to walk at her wedding last week, according to ABC News. The bride, Jacqui Goncher, suffered paralysis from the neck down after jumping into a friend’s pool in 2008 when she was 17. Although doctors gave her zero chance of recovering the use of her legs, physical therapy and exercise eventually allowed her to stand for short periods of time. Her low blood pressure prevented her from standing for more than 30 minutes. Not only was she able to walk down the aisle, but she danced with her groom at her wedding reception. It was the first time Goncher and her husband had ever danced together.

Goncher Was A High School Athlete Before Injury

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that before Goncher suffered paralysis from her pool accident, she was a high school athlete, playing on a fast-pitch softball team. But after the accident in her friend’s pool, she was trapped in a wheelchair for years. Friends and family were deeply moved to see Goncher dance at her wedding reception after years of disability. Photographs commemorating the occasion went viral over social media and found their way into newspapers across the world.

Georgia Law Holds Property Owners Responsible for Keeping Guests Safe

It’s a miracle that Mrs. Goncher was able to recover so much of her strength, but even now she suffers from a serious disability. Whenever someone loses the use of their limbs from an accident on someone else’s property, we have to ask whether or not the owner was liable for negligence. In Georgia, property owners are responsible for taking reasonable care to prevent injuries to their guests. That means repairing any dangerous problems on the property and making sure to warn their guests of any potential dangers. If the property owner fails to take reasonable care to fix potential dangers or warn their guests to avoid them, and this failure leads to an injury, then the property owner may be liable for the injury in a negligence lawsuit.

Goncher’s High School Host May Have Been Liable for Negligence

In Mrs. Goncher’s case, was her high school friend’s family responsible for her injuries? Although reports give few details of the accident that left Goncher bound to a wheelchair, we can imagine several situations that might have made her host liable. First, it’s possible that the pool was in a dangerous condition when Goncher jumped in. For example, if the level of the water in the pool was too low, and this led to Goncher’s injury, the property owner might be liable.

More likely, the pool was simply not deep enough to allow for safe diving. In that case, the property owner has a duty to their guests to warn them not to attempt to dive into the pool. If they don’t, and a diving guest injures themselves, then the owner might be liable for negligence. Another possibiity is that Goncher’s jump went wrong due to the conditions around the pool. Slippery deck surfaces could make a diving guest slip and strike their body against the edge of the pool, leading to serious injuries. If the host failed to take reasonable steps to keep the deck safe, or failed to warn their guests about the dangers of slipping, then the host might be liable for Goncher’s injuries.

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Road Rage Drivers Risk Negligence Lawsuits

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Marietta Court Sentences Road Rage Driver to 15 Years

A court in Marietta recently convicted a Kennesaw man of aggravated assault for pulling a gun in traffic, The Savannah Morning News reports. The court sentenced the man to 15 years in prison on Friday for an incident that occurred in November of 2014. The convicted man, James Matthew Colomb, was angry because another driver had cut him off in traffic. Colomb followed the other vehicle to a store, where he pointed his gun at the driver and his family and threatened them verbally before driving away.

Colomb Aimed Gun at Driver and Family

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the driver who changed lanes in front of Colomb did so “inadvertently” and did not realize he would be the victim of road rage. The driver of the other vehicle was traveling with his wife and three children. When they stopped at an eyeglasses store, Colomb aimed the gun at them and told the driver he could “wipe the smile off [his] face.” Colomb never fired the weapon, but prosecutors argued that anyone willing to pull out a gun because of an “innocent traffic maneuver” was a danger to society.

Road Rage Causes More Car Accidents Each Year

Road rage is causing more and more car accidents each year, as a report from The Washington Post explains. As of 2015, there were more than ten times as many fatal accidents due to road rage annually as there were in 2004. Commuters are the most likely drivers to report feeling uncontrollable rage toward other drivers on the road. What driving behavior is most likely to cause road rage in other drivers? Weaving between lanes and cutting people off. Other behaviors that tend to make drivers angry are speeding, tailgating and behaving in a hostile manner.

Road Rage Can Lead to Lawsuits

Road rage incidents involve drivers who react with anger toward other drivers. Often, the very behaviors they are angry about are the same kind of behaviors they themselves react with: aggressive driving behaviors like tailgating or expressions of hostility. Many of these behaviors are more likely to cause accidents and can lead to liability in a lawsuit. For example, drivers are expected to maintain a minimum distance between their own vehicle and the one in front of them, dependent on speed and road conditions. If a driver fails to maintain that minimum distance and this leads to an accident, the tailgating driver can be liable for negligence in a lawsuit.

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Are Road Construction Contractors Liable in Accidents?

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Ohio Authorities Charge Cobb County Man with Vehicular Manslaughter

Authorities in Cleveland, Ohio have charged a truck driver from Cobb County with aggravated vehicular manslaughter after an accident there Sunday, according to The Toledo Blade. The man, Chana Roosevelt Carter, age 40, of Powder Springs, was driving a tractor trailer when he collided with a slow-moving line of cars on the Ohio Turnpike. A 14-year-old girl, Madison Creagan, of West Shokan, New York, died in the accident. Local authorities have also charged Carter with failure to obey a traffic control device and vehicular assault.

Construction Caused Slow-down; Carter Failed to Brake

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the tractor-trailer accident occurred at about 2 pm Sunday near the State Route 4 interchange in Erie County’s Groton Township. A construction zone covering part of the freeway caused traffic to slow down in that stretch. Law enforcement officials on the scene said that Carter didn’t slow down fast enough to avoid a collision with the slower traffic in front of him. Seven other people suffered injuries in the accident. Ohio state agencies are rebuilding the freeway where the crash occurred. Local authorities are holding Carter in the Erie County jail. There has been no positive or negative report of whether Carter was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accident.

Under Georgia Law, Construction Contractors Can Be Liable for Accidents

The State of Georgia spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year on road construction. This money goes to private contractors to complete freeway construction and other jobs, as a report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains. The state agency responsible for construction (for example, the Georgia Department of Transportation or GDOT) is usually immune from liability for accidents unless they fail to follow standard engineering practices in the construction of roads. However, private contractors can be held liable for negligence if they fail to take reasonable care during the construction work on a freeway, if that failure leads to injuries. For example, in a case called Comanche Construction Inc. of Georgia v. Department of Transportation, a construction contractor for the GDOT placed a detour sign so that it blocked a stop sign, which lead to an accident. The court found that although the state was immune from a negligence lawsuit for the injuries that resulted, Comanche Construction could still be liable.

Construction Contractor Could Be Liable in Carter Crash

If a case like the Carter crash were to occur in Georgia, would the construction company have any possible liability in a negligence lawsuit for the injuries to the seven passengers and the wrongful death of the 14-year-old girl? If the construction company failed to take reasonable care to provide warning of construction, and this prevented Carter from being able to slow down and avoid hitting the traffic in front of him, the construction company might be liable. Even if Carter also failed to follow the rules of the road (for example, if he was driving over the speed limit), the construction company might share some of the liability.

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Are Drivers Liable for Emergency Response Costs?

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Cobb County Accident Requires Emergency Personnel to Remove Passengers from Wreck

Five people are in the hospital after an auto collision in Cobb County last weekend, according to WSB-TV 2 Atlanta. Near Cobb Parkway and Barrett Parkway at about 3 am, a car and a pickup truck crashed into each other. The passengers were trapped in their vehicles, and emergency first responders closed lanes of traffic while they worked to remove the passengers. Emergency personnel transported five of the passengers to Kennestone Wellstar Hospital in Marietta, three of them in critical condition.

Accident Caused Serious Injuries but No Fatalities

ABC 9 Atlanta reports that the car accident did not result in any fatalities. Police reports indicate that the driver of one of the vehicles may have been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. Video footage of the accident scene shows that the accident mangled both vehicles, caving in the sides of the bodies of the minivan and showering the roadway with shattered glass. There are currently no reports on the present status of the passengers who suffered injuries during the accident.

Georgia Law Bans Accident Response Fees

When a driver causes an accident and that accident requires emergency response personnel to respond to the scene, the municipality or local government who operates the emergency response agency may incur large expenses. It is more and more common for these municipalities and local governments nationwide to charge the person responsible for the accident a fee to cover the costs of their emergency first response, as The Insurance Journal explains. However, the Georgia Code specifically bans local governments from charging accident response fees to insurance companies for emergency response to a car accident. There are exceptions for services fee for which the driver has explicit coverage.

Driver Probably Won’t Have to Pay for Emergency Response

Could the driver responsible for the accident at Cobb Parkway and Barrett Parkway have to pay municipal accident response fees? It appears that the county probably incurred significant costs in responding to the accident, including firefighters and emergency medical personnel. Services by fire departments are the ones that municipalities are most likely to try and bill for.

If the driver was in fact under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, it is likely that the driver is liable for negligence and that their insurance company is on the hook to cover the expenses of the accident. It’s possible then that the county will attempt to charge the driver’s insurance company for the costs of emergency response. However, they will probably not be able to hold the insurance company responsible for paying such a fee, since the Georgia Code bans this kind of billing. The only exception might be if the driver is already insured for the payment of municipal accident response fees, in which case the insurance company will have to pay out.

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Can Accident Victims Recover for Lost Income?

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Atlanta Rapper OG Maco Loses Eye in Wreck

Atlanta rapper OG Maco has lost the use of his eye after a car accident, according to Rolling Stone. He first garnered widespread attention for his 2014 hit single “U Guessed It.” The nationally famous performer has kept fans in the loop on his medical recovery since an accident last month. He has reported having surgeries for a broken vertebra, multiple skull fractures, a broken orbital, and plastic surgery to reconstruct his face.

Maco Plans to Recovery, Record New Album

Losing vision and undergoing plastic surgery would be a difficult ordeal for anyone. For a celebrity, it might have special problems attached. If an accident deforms a well-known entertainer’s face, it might have implications for their career. Likewise, anyone who loses an eye may no longer be able to perform important daily tasks that require depth perception, including ones they need to perform for their job. Nonetheless, Billboard reports that OG Maco intends to record and release a new album about a month after his car accident.

Direct vs. Consequential Damages

If different injuries can be more harmful to one person than another, how does this affect car accident lawsuits? That is, how does a court decide how much to award the victim of a car accident when their injury may have been more or less important to another victim? The answer is that the jury can consider the specific situation of the victim and award them damages based on how much their injuries are actually worth.

Georgia law distinguishes between direct damages and consequential damages. Direct damages are the damages that anyone would get for a particular injury. For example, if you had to pay medical bills for an injury that you suffered in a car accident, the cost of these bills would be considered part of your direct damages, since they are an immediate result of the car accident. Consequential damages are the result of the special circumstances of the victim. The consequential damages may not be foreseeable by the person responsible for the injury, but that person can still be liable for these damages. If the injury makes the victim unable to perform their usual work, resulting in a loss of pay, this is a consequential damage.

OG Maco Could Sue for Lost Income

In the case of OG Maco, there could be both direct and consequential damages. Considering the list of surgeries that Maco has publicized, it stands to reason that the cost of his medical bills will be very high. If he were to sue the person responsible, this kind of cost would be part of the direct damages of the injury. On the other hand, it’s also possible that his injury might keep him from going on a lucrative national tour to promote his next album. If Maco could prove that this is the case, he could argue to the jury in a lawsuit how much money the tour would have made him, and ask that they add this amount to the damages. This would be an example of consequential damages.

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Parents Criticize School Response to Active Shooter Scare

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Student Had Gun on School Grounds

Police descended on a local high school when administrators found a gun on the campus, according to WSB-TV 2 Atlanta. One of the students of Pebblebrook High School had the gun in his possession when school staff found the weapon on Wednesday, August 10. Extra police personnel arrived at the school and patrolled the area for any other active shooter suspects. The student who had the gun in his possession is now in police custody.

School on Lockdown for Hours

A fellow student of Pebblebrook High noticed that one of the other students had a gun in his possession and notified school authorities. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that school administrators placed the school on lockdown when they learned of the possibility of a school shooting. Students were instructed to stay where they were for their first period classes until further notice from school officials. These students remained in place for over two hours while awaiting further instructions. School officials say that the lengthy lockdown was not necessary but the result of a technical problem. The school also alerted parents about the incident, which spread concern and panic through the community. Some parents wished that the school had notified them sooner so that they could have picked their children up from school or contacted them to make sure they were safe.

Negligent Security Lawsuits Hold Operator Liable for Injuries on Site

It seems that some parents felt the school didn’t do the right thing for the safety of their kids. In this situation, there’s no report that anyone suffered any injuries. But with school shootings on the rise throughout the country, administrators are under pressure to respond quickly and competently to any unforeseen security problem. From a legal standpoint, one question that arises is whether school administrators and their school districts might be liable for injuries to students that result from improper security practices.

A negligent security lawsuit is a lawsuit which argues that the person in charge of a building or property failed to take reasonable steps to prevent injury to its visitors or occupants, and that this failure led to injuries. At least one state university in Atlanta has already become the defendant of a negligent security lawsuit. Like state universities, school districts are specialized subdivisions of the state government.

Schools May Be Liable for Negligent Security

Like other state agencies, they are usually immune from lawsuits as long as they are following the law and standard procedure. But in some cases where the school officials fail to follow non-discretionary procedures, they may become liable in a lawsuit. For example, the Department of Homeland Security recommends that  schools and places of worship instruct their occupants to shelter in place in the event of an active shooter emergency. If a school were to instruct students to evacuate instead, and this led to injuries, the school might be liable in a negligent security lawsuit.

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Does Seat Belt Use Change Accident Liability?

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Two Dead, Two Injured in Jackson County Rollover

Two people died and two more suffered injuries when an SUV rolled over in Jackson County on Wednesday, August 10 in a deadly car accident, according to NBC 11 Alive Atlanta. The three passengers were not wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident. It appears that the vehicle veered off the road, then overcorrected to stay on the road. This resulted in a sharp turn that overturned the vehicle. After the SUV rolled over, it hit a tree and came to a rest.

Young Drivers Neglect to Wear Seat Belts, Causing Injuries

Seat belt use can make a big difference to survival chances in a car accident. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that most of the Americans under 44 years of age who die each year in car accidents were not wearing seat belts at the time of the accident. Young drivers (ages 18-24) also have the highest rate of hospitalization from car accidents. It’s these same drivers who are least likely to wear seat belts. Men who live outside of big cities are the group of people least likely to wear a seat belt.  Passengers are also less likely to wear a seat belt if they are riding in the back seat. But seat belts are important: they reduce the risk of serious injury or death in a car accident by about half.

Buckling Up is the Law, but It Doesn’t Change Liability

If seat belts are so important for keeping drivers and passengers safe in the event of an accident, then does that make passengers partly responsible for injuries they suffer if they don’t buckle up? In Georgia, courts follow a rule called comparative negligence, in which parties to a lawsuit are financially responsible for injuries in proportion to the extent that they are responsible for them, even if only partly. In general, a negligence lawsuit holds people responsible for taking reasonable care not to injure others when their failure leads to injuries.

But if someone else isn’t taking reasonable care and this contributes to the injury, then the two parties may share responsibility. Taking reasonable care includes following laws that try to keep people safe. According to section 40-8-76.1 of the Georgia Code, anyone sitting in the front seat of a vehicle must wear a seatbelt or face a fine. However, the law also states that failing to wear a seat belt doesn’t affect your liability in the case of a car accident. In other words, even if the passenger might have avoided their injury by wearing a seat belt, the person who caused the accident still has to pay the same damages in a lawsuit.

Jackson County Accident Passengers Broke Law, but Driver is Still Liable

In the case of the accident in Jackson County, the front seat passenger who wasn’t wearing his or her seatbelt was in violation of state vehicle safety laws. The two backseat passengers in the vehicle were not in violation of the seat belt law. However, this would not affect whether the driver or any other person would be liable for negligence in a lawsuit, or how much they would have to pay.

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Drunk Driving and Liability for Negligence

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Driver of Pickup Dies in Fiery Wreck

A driver is dead after a drunk driving accident in Cobb County led to a fiery crash, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The accident occurred on Saturday, August 6 in Austell. The driver swerved through an intersection before hitting a tree in a parking lot. No other vehicles or pedestrians appear to have suffered any damage during the incident.

Driver was Drunk and Speeding Before Crash

The accident took place at about 4:15 in the morning on Saturday. The driver of a Dodge Ram pickup truck drove through the intersection of Old Alabama Road and Gordon Road and began to move into the next lane of traffic. The truck continued to drive at an angle until leaving the road and driving through an adjacent parking lot. Next, the truck hit a tree and burst into flames. Police believe that the driver was intoxicated and that he was traveling at a high rate of speed. There are currently no reports as to why the vehicle caught fire after the collision with the tree. Police have not yet released the identity of the driver, although the Cobb County Medical Examiner is currently working to determine who he is.

Violating Rules of the Road Makes Drivers Liable for Negligence

Luckily, it appears that no one other than the driver suffered any injuries in the collision. If they had, though, the driver would likely have been held liable for negligence.  Negligence lawsuits seek to hold a person liable for failing to exercise reasonable care in a way that leads to injuries to others. When it comes to driving, exercising reasonable care means following the rules of the road. Here, the driver failed to maintain a lane, which is the direct cause of the accident. It also appears that he was violating the speed limit when the wreck happened. Perhaps the most serious law that the driver was violating was the law against driving while intoxicated which can lead to punitive damages awards in Georgia.

Drunk Drivers Can Be Liable for Negligence in an Accident

If his blood alcohol content (BAC) was over .08 (the legal limit in Georgia), he was also violating the Georgia Code. According to section 40-6-391, drivers are prohibited from driving if they have a BAC limit of .08, while commercial drivers have a limit of .04. Drivers under the age of 21 have an even lower limit of .02 BAC. Not only can violating these laws lead to criminal prosecution, it can also lead to civil liability. That means driving drunk can make a driver responsible for money damages if he or she causes an accident. In some cases (especially a hit-and-run case), there may not have been a breathalyzer test after the accident to determine if the driver was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the collision. But in a case like the accident on Old Alabama Road, other factors such as the apparent speed of the accident and the driver’s failure to maintain a lane would make him liable in a negligence lawsuit regardless of alcohol.

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