Auto Accident Defense
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Case Details
HAT attorneys Michael Phillips and Claire Robinett obtained a defense verdict in Scott County in a case involving two drivers alleging that the other crossed the center line on a two lane highway late at night.
Additional Notes
The plaintiff claimed that defendant driver negligently drifted across the centerline and into her northbound lane of traffic thereby causing the accident. Phillips and Robinett successfully established to the jury that just the opposite occurred, showing that it was the plaintiff who crossed the centerline of the road and caused the collision to take place in the log truck’s lane. Phillips successfully cross examined the plaintiff’s accident reconstruction expert, James Hannah. The Defense also proved that the defendant driver took action to avoid the plaintiff’s vehicle by veering his truck onto the shoulder of Highway 35, and, in doing so, avoided a likely fatal, head-on collision.