Jefferson County School District R-1 v. Gilbert Ex Rel. Gilbert

ROVIRA, Justice.

This case is a review of the court of appeals opinion in Gilbert v. City of Arvada, 694 P.2d 847 (Colo.App.1984), which dealt with negligence claims stemming from an automobile-pedestrian accident.

Shortly before noon on February 14, 1978, Christine Gilbert, a five-year-old kin*775dergartner at Lawrence Elementary School in Arvada, Colorado, was injured while walking home from school with a classmate on Grandview Avenue. As the children crossed Carr Street at its intersection with Grandview, about five blocks from the school, Gilbert was struck by a car driven by Roy Miller.

The…