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- Title: Irvin A. Langton v. International
- Author : Supreme Court Of Utah
- Release Date : January 02, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Plaintiff initiated this action to recover for personal injuries and property damage sustained in a motor vehicle collision. Defendants agent was driving a trailer truck northerly on a collector road of Interstate Highway 15. The driver heard an explosive sound and water and steam poured forth from the truck. The driver pulled the truck into the emergency lane on the overpass; this lane was only 5 feet 4 inches wide and the truck was 8 feet wide. There was good visibility; it was daytime; the road was dry and clear. The collector road had two lanes both in a northerly direction; the road had a slight upgrade. The truck driver and his partner alighted from the truck to ascertain the problem. They discovered the damper had broken off the crankshaft and had gone through the radiator. The partner departed to go call a wrecker, and the driver went to the cab of his vehicle to procure warning reflectors; before they could be placed, the collision occurred. The driver further testified that prior to leaving his truck he had activated all the lights, which included the headlights, four red lights on the rear including two that flashed, and six amber lights along the side of the trailer. Approximately three to five minutes elapsed from the time the truck was stopped until the accident. The driver testified that the truck was within 1 1/2 feet of the guard rail; other testimony placed the location as far as three or four feet from the edge of the overpass.