Stevens v. Department of Transportation

Ruffin, Judge.

After their daughter, Kelly, died in an automobile collision, Paul and Dede Stevens sued the Georgia Department of Transportation (“DOT”), alleging that it negligently designed the traffic control devices at the intersection where the collision occurred. The trial court granted the DOT’s motion for summary judgment, and the Stevenses appealed. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

Summary judgment is proper when there is no genuine issue of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. On appeal from a trial court’s grant of summary judgment, we review…