Boulos v. State

Cross appeals from a judgment in favor of claimant, entered May 6, 1980, upon a decision of the Court of Claims (Murray, J.). The decedent, driving alone in a 1968 Oldsmobile on Route 208 in the Town of New Paltz, New York, at about 3:00 p.m. on a rainy afternoon, failed to negotiate a curve at or near the intersection of Watch Hill Road, skidded off the pavement and onto the shoulder of the road, knocking down several trees and shrubs, and finally stopped against a large tree 124 feet from where the automobile left the pavement and about 50 feet from the edge of the road itself. The…