Keenan v. Secretary of State

Plaintiff Administrator filed a complaint in the Court of Claims, alleging that an employee of the Secretary of State negligently supervised and administered a driver’s license road test to an examinee whose vehicle struck and killed nine-year-old Courtney M. Schusterbauer.

The complaint specifically alleged that the ex-aminee, after attempting a right turn at an intersection, failed to straighten the vehicle’s wheels. The vehicle continued over the curb and onto the sidewalk where it struck the child. It then continued across the sidewalk pinning the child between the car and a curb located…