Athay v. Stacey

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal from summary judgments dismissing the Plaintiffs’ claims arising from a collision involving a driver fleeing a police pursuit. The district court held that none of the individual defendants’ conduct reached the level of reckless disregard or was a proximate cause of the collision. We affirm in part and vacate in part.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On June 10, 1999, at approximately 10:12 p.m., the sheriffs dispatcher for Rich County, Utah, broadcast a call that a possible drunken driver in a green Mustang bearing Idaho license plate 3C 1086 was heading north…