Budzinski v. Harris

On October 19, 1969, at about 11:30 p.m., Debra Budzinski, age 14, was a guest passenger in a car driven by Laurie Wayne Harris, age 19. As the vehicle proceeded south at a high rate of speed on U. S. Route 29 about one mile south of Colleen in Nelson County, it struck the rear of another car travelling in the same direction, ran off the highway and was demolished. Debra was killed. The driver and Debra’s cousins, Calvin Harris, Jr., age 18, and his sister, Rebecca (Becky), age 14, who were also passengers in the car, survived.

Debra’s administrator brought this wrongful death action against…