Stone v. Department of Highways

GARDEN, JUDGE:

At approximately 7:30 p.m. on April 22, 1978, the claimant was operating her 1977 Mustang automobile in a southerly direction on Route 119, on a section of that road commonly referred to as the Mileground. The road at the point of the accident is two-laned, of asphalt construction, and about one and one-half miles from the northern corporate limits of the City of Moundsville. The claimant, a resident of Morgantown, West Virginia, was returning home after having attended a wedding in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. She was travelling at 35 miles per hour in a 40-mile-per-hour zone. There…