Junge v. Jerzak

*30WUEST, Justice.

Defendants John Jerzak and the P.J. McLaughlin Company (hereinafter Jerzak) appeal the circuit court’s order granting plaintiffs’ LaVonne and Hiene Junge (hereinafter Junge) a new trial. We affirm.

FACTS

On October 3, 1990, Jerzak was driving his employer’s pickup truck east on Seventh Av- • enue Southwest in Watertown, South Dakota. Jerzak stopped in the traffic lane, put his track into reverse and backed up, apparently to position his vehicle so as to maneuver the pickup truck into a parallel parking space. At approximately the same time, Junge was preparing to turn east onto…