Banovz v. Rantanen

In the early morning of December 29, 1990, plaintiffs Brian Banovz and Joseph Seketa were involved in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 270 in Madison County. They were passengers in a car driven by defendant-appellant, Raymond Rantanen, whose vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer which had jackknifed and was blocking all three lanes of traffic. Both plaintiffs sustained serious injuries, and they filed suit against Rantanen and against the driver of the tractor-trailer, David Lynn Wittaker, and the owner of the tractor-trailer and Wittaker’s employer, the Mickow Corporation, alleging…