Gates v. McKay

CARROLL, Judge.

This appeal is taken by the defendants from an adverse judgment in an automobile accident case. The appellee Patricia McKay, the plaintiff below, was a passenger in an automobile owned by the appellant Arthur Shapiro and driven by the appellant Elaine Mildred Gates. Following dinner at which the driver Gates had had two drinks, she drove north on Northwest 7th Avenue in Miami, with McKay as a passenger. While driving at approximately 45 miles an hour (in a 35 mile an hour zone), in the lane reserved for parking, the Gates car was driven squarely into the rear of an unoccupied…