Stuart-Bullock v. State

Appeal from a judgment in favor of claimant, entered May 19,1970, upon a decision of the Court of Claims. This case arises out of a fatal automobile accident at Milepost 10.4 east on the Cross-Westchester Expressway, also known as Route 287, on August 26, 1967, at about 3:00 p.m. The two east and two westbound lanes of the expressway were separated by a mall 20% feet in width (four-foot blacktop strips on each side of a grass center 12V- feet in width); no barrier separated the eastbound and westbound traffic. It had been raining and the road was wet. Trooper Finnan, who arrived at the scene…