Gardner v. Blackston

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Gardner was driving at night on a Cobb County highway when a tractor-trailer truck pulling a low-boy trailer carrying a heavy road-grader made a left turn from a side road across his path. Gardner testified that he never saw any lights on the trailer and that, therefore, thinking the truck had cleared his lane, he did not apply his brakes. He hit the trailer with such force that the road-grader was knocked off. He sustained extensive injuries, and his automobile was severely damaged. There was testimony that he had been travelling at a high rate of speed.

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