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- Title: Hardman v. Thurman Et Al.
- Author : Supreme Court Of Utah
- Release Date : January 26, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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At about 9:30 p. m. on October 29, 1949, the decedent, Oswald C. Hardman, suffered fatal injuries when the automobile in which he was riding was struck by the trailer-truck owned by defendants in the intersection of State and 21st South streets in Salt Lake City. South of 21st South street, there are six traffic lanes, three for northbound traffic and three for southbound traffic. North of said intersection there are four traffic lanes for vehicular travel, two for northbound traffic and two for southbound traffic. The Hardman car, owned by decedent, was being operated at the time in question by his wife. Mrs. Hardman driving in a southerly direction on State street intended to turn east on 21st South street. Her husband was riding in the front seat holding their small child. Mrs. Hardman drove in the lane next to the center of the street. As the light turned green at 21st South, she stopped momentarily to permit northbound traffic to proceed through the intersection. An oil tanker which was proceeding northward in the first lane east of the center of the street, stopped at the south line of the intersection, signaling for a left turn -- to the west. A car in the second lane east of the center of the street which was proceeding northward, stopped as Mrs. Hardman started to turn to the left in order to proceed eastward. Mrs. Hardman observed no cars in the third lane to the east; but as the Hardman car reached a point where it would have been crossing the third traffic lane to the east assuming such lane had extended through the intersection to the north, the trailer-truck operated by defendants coming from the south in the third traffic lane to the east of the center line of State street, crashed into the right side of the Hardman car driving it sideways across the intersection to the north curb. Oswald C. Hardman sustained injuries from which he died the following day. There were tiremarks from defendants truck-trailer which indicated its course and also showed the distance the wheels or some of them skidded when the brakes were applied. There were various estimates as to the speed of defendants trailer-truck as it entered the intersection ranging from 20 to 42 miles per hour. The speed limit on State Street south of 21st South street was 40 miles per hour and 35 miles per hour north of that intersection. A physicist, called to testify as an expert, on the basis of testimony as to skid marks, estimated the speed of the trailer-truck at approximately 42 miles per hour at the time the brakes were first applied.
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