Legal Opinion
Gaw v. State ex rel. Department of Transportation
Court of Appeals of Utah
Decided September 13, 1990No. 890139-CAPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ORME, Judge:
On April 16, 1984, Fay Gaw was turning left from a side street onto Highway 6 in Helper, Utah. Gaw apparently drove across a merge lane and into the through lane of traffic when she was hit by a truck driven by Jimmy Wray Lingle and owned by Roadrunner Trucking. Gaw was paralyzed from the chest down as a result of the accident. She brought suit against Lin-gle claiming that he had negligently operated the truck and against Roadrunner as the employer of Lingle. She also brought suit against the State of Utah claiming that the intersection was negligently designed,…
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