Legal Opinion
Daye v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 30, 1972No. Civ. A. 71-1726, 71-2167PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
TROUTMAN, District Judge.
I
On July 15, 1970, a chartered bus, carrying a group of school-age children and their counsellors, left Lawrence, New York, enroute to the Pennsylvania Dutch country. In an intermittent rain, the bus proceeded in a westerly direction along U.S. Route 22 (Interstate 78) in Pennsylvania [hereinafter U.S. 22]. The wet pavement allegedly precipitated a skid, causing the bus to rotate clockwise 180°, crash into the guardrails, and tumble over an embankment. As a result of the accident, seven students were killed and forty-seven others injured.
Thereafter,…
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