Phares v. Fahrney

BY JUDGE JOHN J. MCGRATH, JR.

This case is a personal injury action arising out of an automobile accident that happened on November 2, 1994, on Route 33 in Rockingham County, Virginia. The plaintiff, a fifty-year-old, full-time farmer and part-time school cafeteria cook who resides in West Virginia, was proceeding in an easterly direction on Route 33. At that time, the defendant, who was going to work for his normal shift at die Wampler-Longacre plant in Hinton, Virginia, made a left-hand turn directly in front of the defendant resulting in a collision.

At the scene of the accident, the…