Legal Opinion
Caron v. General Motors Corp.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 22, 1994No. 92-P-420PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
The plaintiff, Gregory H. Caron, was injured when, intoxicated and navigating his 1975 Buick *745LeSabre automobile at fifty to fifty-five miles per hour through dense fog by following the white line in the road,2 he failed to negotiate a turn and drove the car down an embankment, striking a culvert, a small tree, a parked car, and ultimately a large tree after the car had rolled over. His two companions, neither seriously injured, were able to crawl out the rear windshield hole. Caron was trapped in the car, one leg caught between the driver’s door and the car frame, the door apparently having…
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