Sonnier v. Ramsey

PEDEN, Justice.

Plaintiff was a “side-rider” or passenger in an ambulance that ran into the side of a large truck in an intersection as the truck was going east on Market Street on a green traffic light. The ambulance had entered the intersection going south on Federal Road on a red traffic light, and each vehicle had been proceeding straight ahead. The trial judge ruled that the ambulance was on an authorized emergency trip at the time.

A take-nothing judgment was entered on the jury verdict which included findings that the driver of defendant-appellee’s truck did not fail to keep a proper…