Smith v. Lott

Clarke, Justice.

The narrow question to be decided here is whether a combine driven at a speed of eight to seventeen miles per hour on a public road where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour could be found by a jury to be an obstruction.

While driving a tractor-trailer along a highway, Smith passed a combine being driven by Lott. Evidence set the speed of the combine at somewhere between eight miles per hour and seventeen miles per hour. During Smith’s passing maneuver, Lott began to execute a left-hand turn and the two vehicles collided. In order to pass the combine, Smith had crossed over a…