Washington Tort Law Blog

Apparently, in Washington, you best not hit a horse with your car and leave it on the road. A Jefferson County jury awarded $2.7 million to a woman who was injured when she hit the dead horse in the road. The horse was left by a telephone company truck driver who accidentally struck the horse. He did not call or alert anyone to the dead animal in the roadway, or use any of the safety equipment available in his company truck to alert subsequent drivers.

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