Straughan v. Nash

Ernest Clarence Nash was struck and killed by an automobile driven by Jo Anne Straughan, and his personal representatives have recovered a judgment against her for $9,500. Straughan has appealed, and the dispositive error assigned is that Nash was guilty of contributory negligence which bars a recovery.

The accident occurred on March 18, 1972, at about 8 p. m. on Virginia Highway 3 in Stafford County, at a point immediately east of the intersection of this highway with Route 607. Route 3 is a four lane highway with two eastbound and two westbound lanes divided by a concrete median strip. In…