Hiss v. Metropolitan Dade County

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

In this negligence action we reverse a summary judgment entered in favor of Metropolitan Dade County, one of several defendants. The decedent, Alexander Hiss, a twelve-year-old boy, was killed while riding his bicycle in a westerly direction into an intersection in which the two lanes designed to be used for southbound traffic were closed. Alexander was struck by a car traveling south in one of two lanes designed to be used for northbound traffic only.

We agree with the County that the misplacement or absence of signs warning of the approaching and clearly visible…