Wise v. Lodge’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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1. ““G.S. 20-141 establishes the maximum speed at which motor vehicles are permitted to travel lawfully on the highways of the State, in a business district, in a residential district, and in other places. Section (a) of this statute provides ‘no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing.’ Section (c) of the same statute reads: ‘The fact that the speed of a vehicle is lower than the foregoing limits shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease speed . . . when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions, and speed shall be decreased as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle, or other conveyance on or entering the highway, and to avoid causing injury to any person or property either on or off the highway, in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care.’ * * * The skidding of an automobile is not in itself, and without more, evidence of negligence. Coach Co. v. Burrell, 241 N.C. 432 , 85 S.E. 2d 688 ; Mitchell v. Melts, 220 N.C. 793 , 18 S.E. 2d 406 ; Springs v. Doll, 197 N.C. 240 , 148 S.E. 251 . But the skidding of an automobile may be evidence of negligence, if it appears that it was caused by a failure to exercise reasonable precaution to avoid it, when the conditions at the time made such a result probable in the absence of such precaution. [Citing authorities”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark ex rel. Clark v. Jackson