Marquez v. Pepsi Cola Bottling Co.

OPINION

GREENWOOD, Judge:

Plaintiff Ana Marquez appeals from a jury verdict finding her one hundred percent at fault and defendant Pepsi Cola zero percent at fault for an automobile-pedestrian accident in which plaintiff sustained personal injuries. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

At approximately 9:00 a.m. on March 6, 1987, plaintiff was driving her 1983 Nissan Sentra east on Twenty-first South in Salt Lake City. It was rush hour and she was on her way to work. Her car started to malfunction, so she pulled over in the emergency lane of Twenty-first South, about four hundred feet east of the Ninth West…