Court Opinion

ID: 9521285
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:02:07.472003+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:49:27.675196
License: Public Domain

PAGE, Justice,
(dissenting).
Ultimately, this case presents the question of whether, in January in Minnesota, with rain falling hard enough to require the use of windshield wipers and the temperature between 20 and 26 degrees, a driver has a duty to slow down to a reasonable and prudent speed in order to avoid endangering other people. To say, as a matter of law, that there is no such duty under these circumstances, is to send the message that Minn. Stat. § 169.14, subds. 1 and 3, have no meaning. Given my experience driving in Minnesota under similar conditions, that is simply the wrong message to send. Therefore, I dissent.