Court Opinion

ID: 9564824
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:08:14.829394+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:41.917329
License: Public Domain

Felton, J.,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment of reversal, but I do not think that Code § 68-303 (d) is applicable under the facts of this case. The defendant did not cause any damage while he was attempting to pass a vehicle or when the plaintiff thought he was trying to do so. The defendant pulled into the left-hand lane preparatory to passing a vehicle, which is not prohibited by law; and when he saw the plaintiff approaching five or six hundred yards away, he pulled back into his lane (his side of the road) and did not pass or attempt further to pass the truck in front of him. When the defendant pulled back to his side of the road, he ran off the right-hand side and lost control of his vehicle, which came to a stop with a fender on the plaintiff’s side of the road. The plaintiff first saw the defendant when he, the defendant, was on the right-hand shoulder of the road. If the defendant was guilty of negligence, it was common-law negligence ¿nd not a violation of the above statute.