Car Accidents in Nashville, TN

Ask the agency that worked the scene. Inside Davidson County that is usually the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, and on I-40, I-65, or I-24 it is often the Tennessee Highway Patrol instead. Tennessee crash reports are generally released through the investigating agency and the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Get the report number from the officer before you leave. It makes every call after that shorter.

A personal injury suit from a Nashville crash is generally filed in the Davidson County Circuit & Chancery Courts. Nashville and Davidson County share one metropolitan government, so the city and the county are the same filing venue here. That stops being true a few miles out. A crash in Williamson or Rutherford County goes to that county's courts, even if you live in Nashville and were driving home.

It can change who was involved. Downtown traffic mixes rideshare drivers, out-of-state visitors, delivery vans, and people crossing mid-block, and more parties usually means more insurers with reasons to point at each other. Under Tennessee's 50% bar, you recover only if you were less than half at fault. So how blame gets divided among all those drivers matters to you directly.

In Tennessee, the deadline is generally 1 year from the date of the accident. ONLY 1 YEAR for personal injury — among the shortest in the nation. Wrongful death 1 year. Deadlines are strict — the sooner you act, the more options you have.