LOUISIANA DOTD FOUND NEGLIGENT IN $2.6 MILLION AWARD
A Louisiana Court of Appeals found the state of Louisiana negligent for failing to properly install a traffic signal at a hazardous site, made more hazardous by the overpass construction underway at the time of the accident. Details are given of the intersection location, and the accident in which the plaintiff became an irreversible quadraplegic. The trial judge found the DOTD liable in its failure to monitor the intersection properly and in its consequent failure to install a stop-and-go signal, which he found to be the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries. The state appealed this ruling but the Appeals Court upheld it, basing its finding on the fact that the DOTD is required by law to comply with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The trial ultimately based its finding of liability on the DOTD's failure to take even the most basic and necessary investigative steps to begin a study of whether or not a stop-go signal would have been proper at the intersection.
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Corporate Authors:
TranSafety, Incorporated
8136 Old Keene Mill Road, Suite B-101
Springfield, VA United States 22152 - Publication Date: 1987-1
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 1-3
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Serial:
- TRANSAFETY REPORTER
- Volume: 5
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: TranSafety, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0884-612X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Courts; Hazards; Intersections; Laws; Liability; Negligence; Stopping; Traffic characteristics; Traffic congestion; Traffic crashes; Traffic signals; Work zone traffic control
- Identifier Terms: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
- Old TRIS Terms: Stop and go
- Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00463295
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 31 1987 12:00AM