Hampton v. Raines

RUARK, Judge.

As an after-product of a head-on collision between two tractor-trailer outfits, we are presented with a question of humanitarian negligence on the theory of “failure to cease blinding.”

The collision occurred at approximately 4:30 in the morning in a fairly heavy fog. It happened in the east (northbound) lane of Highway 71 just south of Jasper, Missouri. The road at that point is two-lane asphalt, approximately 24 feet wide. A few hundred feet to the south of the scene of collision there is a fairly abrupt double curve. From there on north, at the scene of the collision and a…