D'Angeli's Case

The claimant was injured on November 8, 1966, when he was struck by a car on Route 1-93. The claimant, employed as a mechanic, was returning to his employer’s premises in his own automobile from a repair job in Wilmington when he noticed a tightly wound coil of rope, three feet in diameter and less than six inches high, on the surface of the road between two of the southbound lanes. He stopped his car in the breakdown lane, got out, picked up the coil, and was attempting to return to his car when he was struck by another automobile proceeding southward. The single member denied the claim; the…