Legal Opinion
Wingfield v. State ex rel. Department of Transportation & Development
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 8, 2002No. 2001 CA 2668, 2001 CA 2669PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JjjFITZSIMMONS, 3.
On August 6, 1994, Mr. Kenneth Clark and his step-father, Mr. Jack Ray Wing-field, both commercial track drivers, were hauling a load of cattle from Florida to Arizona via Interstate Highway 10, westbound. A fatal accident occurred when the driver of the double decked tractor-trailer, Mr. Clark, entered a sharply curving ramp on the interstate, just before the Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At the time of the accident, approximately 5:50 a.m., Mr. Wingfield was asleep in the sleeper compartment of the tractor cab.
The tractor-trailer rolled over the ramp…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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