Wood v. State

Weiss, J. (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent. The arrangement of the traffic control devices is crucial to claimants’ assertion of negligence. There is little dispute that at the time of the accident, the signal was green for vehicles proceeding east or west on Route 11 and red for those proceeding north or south on Route 9. Nor is there any doubt that the red traffic signal for the southbound lane on Route 9 had not been working properly for at least one day before the accident. Significantly, the north face of the additional traffic light situated over the right turn lane had a steady red…