Robinson v. Gerber

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

Factually this case is about a head-on collision between a Thunderbird automobile and a Buick ambulance. Legally the appeal presents a head-on conflict between two statutes, the right-half-of-the-road statute and the emergency-vehicle statute §§ 304.015 and 304.022. 1

Plaintiff Margaret O. Robinson owned and was riding in the Thunderbird driven by her son, Raymond Owens. Defendant Donald Gerber drove the ambulance, owned by the corporate defendant. They collided head on at the crest of a hill in St. Louis County on U.S. Highway 66, Lindbergh Boulevard, while the ambulance…