Legal Opinion
Dorsett v. American Isuzu Motors, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 3, 1992No. Civ. A. 89-9111PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CAHN, District Judge.
I. Background
On December 22,1987, Julia Dorsett was driving her stepfather’s 1987 Isuzu Trooper II [“the Trooper”] home from a friend’s Christmas party. While she was driving north on Route 202, traveling at sixty to sixty-five miles per hour in the right lane of the two lane highway, she came upon a slow moving vehicle. That vehicle, driven by Paul Allen Benner-Smith, was proceeding at approximately forty to fifty miles per hour because of engine trouble. In order to avoid colliding with Benner^ Smith’s car, Julia quickly steered to the left. As she did so, her…
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