Corning v. East Oakland Township

PRESIDING JUSTICE COOK

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Deanna Corning was injured when she drove her automobile through a rural "T” intersection and into a ditch. Plaintiff filed a complaint against defendants East Oakland Township, Randy Strader (the township’s road supervisor), and Coles County, alleging that her injuries resulted from defendants’ failure to maintain the intersection in a reasonably safe condition. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that the intersection had become unreasonably dangerous because a stop sign erected by defendants had been removed by persons unknown…