McCoy v. State

On October 18,1980, between 10:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Claimant Roosevelt McCoy, Jr., drove his automobile through a safety zone marked by flares and collided with Respondent’s tow truck. Claimants Willie Logan and Annette Griffin were passengers in the McCoy automobile at the time of the incident. Claimants McCoy and Logan seek damages from the State of Illinois and allege that Robert Hanson, the State driver, negligently backed the Respondent’s tow truck into Claimant McCoy’s car.

Robert Hanson, who had served in the emergency traffic patrol of Chicago for 11 years, observed a four-car…