Johnson v. State, Dept. of Transportation & Development

Cooks, Judge.

■ h FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Seventeen-year-old Casey Johnson, (Casey) the son of Donna D. Johnson and Anthony W. Johnson (Plaintiffs), died in a one-car automobile accident on Louisiana Highway 102 in Jefferson Davis Parish. Casey was returning from a visit at his girlfriend’s home around 8:00 o’clock P.M. The road surface was wet. As Casey’s vehicle entered a curve to the right, he lost control of it leaving the roadway to the right. His vehicle struck the headwall of a cement culvert running under the roadway, rolled over into the ditch, partially ejecting Casey, and…