Hernandez v. Department of Transportation

Opinion

PERLUSS, P. J.

Kathleen Hernandez, the family of Ashlee Hernandez and Rochelle Ramos filed a lawsuit 1 against the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) after Ramos and Kathleen Hernandez were injured and Ashlee Hernandez was killed in an automobile accident at the Lower Azusa Road off-ramp on the Interstate 605 freeway. They contend the lack of a guardrail at the accident location constituted a dangerous condition of public property. The trial court granted Caltrans’s motion for summary judgment, finding the action was barred by statutory design immunity as a matter of…