Court Opinion

ID: 9777970
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:29:14.733534+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:02.849160
License: Public Domain

PREWITT, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the principal opinion except as to its statement that “the difficulty encountered by a motorist approaching the crossing from the east in seeing to his right” is irrelevant as the train was not coming from the decedent’s right.
I believe the view in both directions is relevant. A motorist ordinarily would, or should, look in both directions. In an effort to see around or past obstructions, or to look at a difficult angle, it might take a motorist longer than it would if the view was clear, leaving less time to look in the other direction.
Although I believe that Jackie Leroy Hendricks’ view of the railroad tracks to his right is relevant, and a factor to be considered in determining whether he entered an unusually dangerous crossing, that view is not of sufficient significance here to change the result because of the other factors regarding the crossing covered in the principal opinion. I agree that the evidence was insufficient for the jury to have found that this was an unusually dangerous crossing for a motorist proceeding as Hendricks was with a train approaching from his left.