Conder v. Wood

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

SULLIVAN, Justice.

After a truck struck and knocked down Plaintiff Priscilla Wood’s companion, Wood pounded on the side of the truck in a frantic attempt to get the driver to stop before the truck crushed her companion. We find that Wood sustained the requisite direct impact necessary to maintain an action in Indiana for negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Background

On September 1, 1993, Priscilla Wood and her friend and co-worker, Patricia Brittain, were walking in downtown Indianapolis and stopped at the southeast corner of Illinois and New York streets. When…