Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 23:21:27 GMT -6
The legal fight over damages stemming from a 2009 drag racing collision that killed three people south of Charlotte now heads to the state Supreme Court.
In an appeal filed Monday, the N.C. highway department has asked the state’s highest court to overturn a $3 million judgment it has been ordered to pay for failing to install a promised traffic signal on N.C. 49 at the main entrance to the sprawling Palisades community.
In 2014, the N.C. Industrial Commission unanimously voted to award $1 million each to the estates of Cynthia Furr, her 2-year-old daughter Mackie, and Hunter Holt, 13. All three died in the April 4, 2009 crash, which occurred after two drivers began racing each other on the trip home from Carowinds, barreling down N.C. 49 at speeds over 100 mph.
Furr and her daughter were trying to turn left onto northbound 49 when they were struck by one of the speeding cars – in which Holt was a passenger.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article64617067.html
In an appeal filed Monday, the N.C. highway department has asked the state’s highest court to overturn a $3 million judgment it has been ordered to pay for failing to install a promised traffic signal on N.C. 49 at the main entrance to the sprawling Palisades community.
In 2014, the N.C. Industrial Commission unanimously voted to award $1 million each to the estates of Cynthia Furr, her 2-year-old daughter Mackie, and Hunter Holt, 13. All three died in the April 4, 2009 crash, which occurred after two drivers began racing each other on the trip home from Carowinds, barreling down N.C. 49 at speeds over 100 mph.
Furr and her daughter were trying to turn left onto northbound 49 when they were struck by one of the speeding cars – in which Holt was a passenger.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article64617067.html