Toombs v. Williams

WALLIS DOWNING, Special Commissioner.

Jasper S. Toombs, at the age of twelve, while riding a bicycle, collided with a one-ton pickup truck owned and driven by Oliver S. Williams, age sixty-four. The accident was fatal. It occurred on Highway 34, July 14, 1966, about 2 p. m., at the driveway entrance of the Danville Country Club. There was no other traffic on the highway. The highway is thirty-six feet wide and divided into three traffic lanes. Each lane is twelve feet wide and marked so that there are two lanes for traffic proceeding west toward Danville and one lane for traffic going east out…