Court Opinion

ID: 9704203
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:26:41.205602+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:58.396838
License: Public Domain

CARTER, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in all aspects of the opinion of the court as it applies to the facts of the present case. In view of some of the arguments which have been made, however, I wish to express my view that “sudden emergency” is not the only Kisling category which may be applicable in an accident on an icy roadway.
Because of rapidly changing road conditions, a driver may come upon an icy stretch of highway under circumstances where it is not safe to pull off or stop. A driver proceeding ahead under such circumstances may gain an awareness of the road conditions sufficient to preclude application *357of the sudden emergency” category of legal excuse. This does not mean, however, that the road conditions may not provide a legal excuse for certain statutory violations under a different Kisling category, i.e., that the road conditions “make it impossible to comply with the statute or ordinance.”