Careful when loaning your car to a friend or family member
When a parent lends their car to their son or daughter several worries probably come to mind, but it is doubtful that many ever consider that their son or daughter may transport illegal drugs in such car subjecting the car to immediate seizure and forfeiture. In Tennessee, the law allows...
2018 Texting and Driving Scholarship Winner – National
The winner of our 2018 Stop Texting and Driving Video Scholarship contest is Blake O’Donnell of Mechanicsville, Va. O’Donnell entered the competition just weeks after his mother, Suzanne, a 48-year-old preschool teacher and breast cancer survivor, lost her life in a distracted driving accident. A teenager was charged with reckless...
Tennessee Highway Patrol to Host Teen Driver Education Camp
Late last month the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security announced its first annual Teen Driver Education Camp, which is being offered to 200 high school students from around the state. The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) will serve as hosts for the camp, which will take place at the...
2018 Texting and Driving Scholarship Winner – Davidson County
At Raybin & Weissman we are so proud of our 2018 Texting and Driving Video Scholarship winners, including Jacob Fawcett , a high school senior at Hunters Lane High School. As our local (Davidson County) winner, Fawcett received a check in the amount of $1,000 at our scholarship ceremony, which...
2018 Texting and Driving Scholarship Winner – Tennessee
At Raybin & Weissman we are so proud of our 2018 Texting and Driving Video Scholarship winners, including Coal Dye , a high school senior from Grace Christian Academy, who won our statewide competition. As winner for the state of Tennessee, Dye received a check in the amount of $1,000...
Tennessee Gives a ‘Thumbs Down’ to Distracted Driving
“Troopers say just the slightest distraction can lead to a deadly crash.” So said NewsChannel5’s Dan Kennedy during a recent live report from North Nashville. According to Kennedy there were approximately 25,000 distracted driving crashes in Tennessee in 2017, which led to 120 deaths. That’s roughly the same number of...
Why Are Distracted Driving Accidents Underreported?
Distracted driving is a major problem in Tennessee. Never mind the fact that the Tennessee State Legislature made it illegal to text and drive on Volunteer State roads back in 2009. In 2016, 24,743 crashes in Tennessee involved a distracted driver, and Davidson County was the scene of 2,861 distracted...
Distracted Driving Statistics Show Major Problem in Tennessee
Distracted Driving in Tennessee on the Rise Eight years ago, the Tennessee State Legislature made it illegal to text and drive on Tennessee roads. But the law—codified in TN Code section 55-8-199—hasn’t reduced the number of distracted driving crashes in the Volunteer State. In fact, the number of distracted driving...
2016 Texting and Driving Scholarship National Winner
We at Raybin & Weissman are so proud of our 2016 Texting and Driving Video Scholarship winners. These bright students created very effective Public Service Announcements (PSAs), which expressed the dangers of texting and driving. We could not believe how powerful, creative and touching the videos that we received were....
2016 Texting and Driving Scholarship Winner Davidson County
At Raybin & Weissman, we are so proud of our 2016 Stop Texting and Driving Scholarship winners. These bright students created very effective PSAs, which expressed the dangers of texting and driving. We could not believe how powerful, creative and touching the videos that we received were. Choosing winners was...
Texting and Driving Scholarship “Distracted” Video – Honorable Mention
Our 2nd scholarship competition has come to a close. We asked students to create short PSAs on the dangers of texting and driving. We could not believe how powerful, creative and touching the videos entries were. We’ve selected and awarded our three scholarship winners but we were so impressed with...
Texting & Driving: Can the Sender of a Text be Liable Too?
As I have commented on many times in this site,texting and driving is a hazard that needs to stop. I have covered a variety of different thoughts on this issue. That being said, I want to comment on an aspect that most people probably have not thought about- specifically what...
National Texting and Driving Scholarship Winning Essay
Earlier this year, my firm and I set out to make a difference in the fight against texting and driving by offering a scholarship for texting and driving essays. Over 5,000 high school and college students took the time to answer our essay prompt: “If you had to convince just...
Davidson County Texting and Driving Scholarship Winning Essay
In the fight against texting and driving, teenagers are on the front lines. Public and private organizations have spent millions of dollars to arm them with facts about the dangers of texting and driving. I’m passionate about making a difference so my firm and I created an annual scholarship contest...
Williamson County Texting and Driving Scholarship Winning Essay
I am very pleased to announce the winner of the Williamson County Stop Texting and Driving Scholarship- Travis Burhart. As you know if you have read my blog posts on this web site in the past, I have become passionate in my desire to eliminate texting and driving. As a...
Texting and Driving – IT CAN WAIT!
How many times a day do you pick up your phone while you’re driving to read or send a text? Can you honestly say that you have never once been guilty of doing this? No, you cannot. The ugly truth is that most of us, if not all of us...
Time to Take A Stand On Texting & Driving
As I have discussed many times, texting and driving is an inherently very dangerous act. As a parent to teenagers and as a person who drives a long way every day, trying to end this plague is a passion of mine. Ending Texting & Driving In light of same, I...
Don’t Text and Drive – An Open Letter to Nashville Drivers
An open letter to Nashville Drivers from a lawyer, a driver and parent of two teenage girls._ Dear fellow drivers, We have a problem in Tennessee that is maiming and killing our citizens, and it is a problem we have chosen to create. As you might guess, that issue is...
Texting While Driving in Tennessee Could Get You in Trouble
In today’s world, texting has replaced talking on the phone, especially among young people. However, this trend becomes extremely dangerous when it happens behind the steering wheel. Texting while driving seems completely harmless until the distraction causes a car accident. Studies have shown that texting while driving is even more...