Re: litigious society?

Posted by RBoots on June 21, 2016 at 16:40:08 from (173.241.113.102):

In Reply to: litigious society? posted by Geo-TH,In on June 21, 2016 at 15:10:55:

About 4 years ago, in the TWP I work in, a car load of teenagers ran a stop sign where one fairly busy road crosses abother pretty busy road. Unfortunately, there was a guy driving on that other road and they hit his car when they ran the stop sign, shoving his car down into a ditch where it burst into flames and he passed away. Fast forward a few months and my boss and I were asked to go to our main office. Apparently the family of the gentleman that passed away, was suing the kids in the car that ran the stop sign (or whichever teen's parents owned the car), and the road commission, saying that the intersection was not mowed and the stop signs were not visible, causing the death of their family member. So their lawyer wanted to verify from us that I took care of the township. After stating that it was our fault the teens ran the stop sign, my boss traveled out to the location of the accident with the lawyer and took pictures. That intersection has (2) stop ahead signs, one on your right, one on your left as you approach the intersection, approximately 800 (?) feet from the real stop signs. At the intersection, there is a stop sign on your left, and on your right (the updated larger recent federally mandated ones) with (2) posts on each stop sign and full length red reflectors on each leg of the stop sign. All 4 signs are clearly visible from a half mile away. Sure it is a corner with woods on each side, but it is mowed back about 30', which is past the right of way, but I know the property owners and they would rather have it done that way to prevent any accidents. The final nail in the coffin for their lawyer was after they said it hadn't been mowed, reducing the visibility, my boss pulled up my GPS data from my mower tractor. It is a ping every 15 seconds on the map. It is a high detail map that showed how fast I was moving each 15 seconds, and which way I was traveling, and also most importantly, how long I spent on that corner with that mower tractor number. 1.5 hours on that corner alone, getting it looking neat. It gets mowed twice a year. I can imagine that it would be hard to lose a loved one like that,but if you are looking into it that deep to find someone to sue, I think you're looking for money. They dropped their lawsuit after that.

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