Miller v. Department of Highways

WALLACE, JUDGE:

The claimant seeks damages in the amount of $6,300.35 from the respondent occasioned by an automobile accident on June 17, 1976. The accident occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m. The claimant lived about three miles north of Spencer, West Virginia, at Tariff, West Virginia. She was employed by Norris Industries in Spencer. On the morning of the accident, the claimant was driving alone to work on West Virginia Route 14 in her 1974 Ford Pinto. There had been unusually heavy rain*141fall during the night. At a point approximately % mile from Spencer, she entered a curve in the highway…