Opinion ID: 1293616
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: bridgebuilders

Text: One inference to be drawn from the evidence is that Bridgebuilders should have erected immovable barricades across the roadway so as to more adequately assure warning of the dangers created by the unfinished bridge. The use of moveable barricades apparently permitted unknown persons to move them from the two outside lanes. Bridgebuilders also failed to install appropriate warning signals at designated points along Holcombe Road as required by the Standards of Traffic Control and Street and Highway Construction and Maintenance Operation, as set forth in the manual prepared by the South Carolina Highway Department, which governs the operation and conduct of persons undertaking construction projects. The evidence certainly made jury issues as to whether Bridgebuilders was or was not negligent and whether such negligence was a contributing proximate cause of the collision.