Koncaba v. Scotts Bluff County

This is a wrongful death action against the State of Nebraska under the State Tort Claims Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 81-8,209 et seq. (Reissue 1987), and Scotts Bluff County under the Nebraska Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-901 et seq. (Reissue 1987).

*38The plaintiff’s decedent, Adolph Lee Koncaba, died as the result of injuries sustained in a one-car accident. The accident occurred on September 27, 1986, at approximately 9 p.m., when the plaintiff’s decedent was driving his automobile in an easterly direction on “Old Highway 26,” a two-lane highway, at a point…