Lane v. Brown

*36ARMSTRONG, J.

Plaintiffs sought damages from defendant for injuries they sustained when the car in which they were traveling was struck by defendant’s pickup truck. They appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendant and assign error to the trial court’s decision to give Uniform Civil Jury Instruction 20.08, which is an instruction about a person's response to an emergency. We affirm.

Because the jury found in favor of defendant, we recite the facts in the light most favorable to him. On November 15,1991, defendant was driving west on Highway 26 near Mount Hood. Defendant had…