Guidry v. Whitmore

YELVERTON, Judge.

The State Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) was one of the defendants against whom the plaintiffs, the heirs of Ruby Guidry, obtained a judgment for injuries sustained by Mrs. Guidry in a two-vehicle collision. DOTD’s liability was based on negligence for failure to warn the motoring public of an unusual road condition occasioned by highway construction. DOTD appealed. Because we find the accident was caused solely by the negligence of the truck driver who ran a stop sign and hit the vehicle in which Mrs. Guidry was a passenger, we reverse the judgment of…