Cook v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

In a bench trial Michael Cook was found guilty of failure to yield. On appeal, Cook enumerates two errors.

The State’s evidence showed that Cook, a commercial truck driver, was issued a traffic citation after a collision between his tractor-trailer and a car driven by Princetta Summer. Summer testified that she had a green light for her direction of travel when Cook’s 18-wheeler suddenly crashed into her Maxima. According to the investigating officer, who observed the debris, the damage to the vehicles, and conducted interviews at the scene, the collision occurred as Cook…