Carr v. Woods

Steele Hays, Justice.

Sheela Woods, appellee, sued Jeff Carr, appellant, for personal injuries sustained when her vehicle and his collided in Hamburg, Arkansas. Carr pled guilty to driving while intoxicated and failure to yield the right-of-way.

Ms. Woods established in trial that she suffered a fracture to a bone in her right foot. Although she was examined in a local emergency room immediately following the 2:00 a.m. collision, the fracture went undetected for over a week because it was impacted, the bones being pressed inward, and was unrevealed by x-ray photographs. She testified to…