Baker v. Kammerer

Dissenting opinion by

Justice COOPER.

There were five eyewitnesses to this pedestrian/automobile accident. Plaintiff/Appellant, Amanda Baker, and three other teenage girls, Leah Edmonds, Aleisha Sams, and Tamara Thibodeaux, were pedestrians intending to cross Carothers Road at its intersection with Monmouth Street in the city of Newport. Defendant/Appellee, Theresa Kammerer, was operating her vehicle from east to west on Carothers Road. Baker stepped into the intersection and was struck by Kammerer’s vehicle. Kammerer testified that the traffic light was green for traffic on Car-others Road.…