Texas Department of Transportation v. Pate

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

In the wake of the October 2000 collision that killed three young people — Earl Haley, Heather Anderson, and Casey Pate— at the intersection of State Highway 21 and Farm-to-Market Road 95 (FM95) in Nacogdoches County, the evidence suggested the pickup truck driven by Haley and occupied by his two companions either stopped or slowed to a crawl at a stop sign before proceeding slowly onto the highway and into the path of a tractor-trailer truck traveling just above the fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit. Evidence also showed that Haley’s view of oncoming…