Skinner v. South Carolina Department of Transportation

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment to the respondents, finding they owed no duty to appellants, and also holding that appellants’ negligence claim failed for lack of proximate cause. We affirm, finding that appellants have not shown the existence of a duty and therefore do not reach the proximate cause issue.

FACTS

Appellant Skinners were injured when their automobile was struck head on by a car driven by appellant Drake’s decedent (Cook) after Cook’s car crossed the center line of Highway 61. Cook apparently lost control when she veered onto the highway’s shoulder near a…