Simon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

COOKS, Judge.

JJ'ACTS

Alisa Simon (Plaintiff) was injured in an automobile accident on August 12, 2002. She was a guest passenger in a 1999 Mazda. A GMC Sierra pick-up truck, owned by Nondestructive & Visual Inspection, Inc. (Nondestructive) and driven by Travis Poche (Poche), failed to stop for a red traffic light at the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 90 and La. Hwy. 397 in Calcasieu Parish. Poche’s vehicle was traveling at about fifty miles per hour. He did not brake or slow down, and hit the car in which Plaintiff was a passenger, broadside. The vehicle had to be cut in two before Plaintiff could…