Kolster v. City of El Paso

in which GONZALEZ, BAKER, ABBOTT, and HANKINSON, Justices, join.

As we explained today in City of Amarillo *59v. Martin,1 to recover damages resulting from the emergency operation of an emergency vehicle, a plaintiff must show that the operator has committed an act that the operator knew or should have known posed a high degree of risk of serious injury — in other words, that the operator has acted recklessly.

We granted writ of error in this case because, like Martin, it presented the question of how culpable a municipal employee’s acts must be in operating an emergency vehicle in an emergency…