Accident Lawsuits Against Local Governement Entities
A wrongful death lawsuit has been brought by the survivors of three people killed in a car accident. The wrinkle in this case is that they have brought a suit against the city of Charlotte and Crescent Resources, accusing them of negligence for not installing a traffic light where the high-speed crash along N.C. 49 occurred two years ago.
Why bring in the governement entities? The families' lost loved ones were not the cause of the accident: the accident was caused by two guys who were racing. The answer in these cases is always the same: inadequate insurance.
The suit claims Charlotte and Crescent Resources, the developer of a community along the highway in southwest Mecklenburg County, created a dangerous intersection and failed to install a traffic light.
These are very tough cases, they really are, although sometimes it becomes painfully obvious that the governement screwed up (here is one example). The one big problem plaintiffs have with a jury: there are already well defined bad guys, two guys driving 100 miles an hour that have been charged with murder.
