David Furry v. United States

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

In this Federal Tort Claims Act case, David Furry and Diane Nye allege that Ronald Williams, a substitute letter carrier for the United States Postal Service, negligently caused a vehicle collision that resulted in substantial injuries. Furry and Nye, who were in the station wagon that made contact with Williams’s postal truck, did not see Williams’s vehicle before the accident or observe the collision. At the bench trial, they argued that the vehicle damage, Williams’s lack of credibility, and his flight from the scene of the accident all proved that Williams acted…