Westbrooks v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board & Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Opinion

EVANS, Acting P. J.

In this proceeding we review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board denying Jimmy Westbrooks’s claim for benefits for emotional injury arising out of a reckless driving incident while Westbrooks was on an assigned run for his employer, Greyhound Lines. The question presented is whether Westbrooks’s reckless driving took him outside the course of his employment. We conclude it did not.

The material facts are without dispute. On September 30, 1984, West-brooks, a bus driver for Greyhound, was driving an assigned run from Sacramento to Redding. On a…