William Cecil Weeks was test-driving a car when he ran a red light and hit Vicki Hiers’s pickup, ejecting her from the vehicle and causing brain damage. This, the Hiers family claims in a lawsuit filed by Michael Strickland, is the fault of Ken Isaacs Chevrolet-Cadillac in Moultrie, Georgia, because they let the 86-year-old test drive a car alone. (Lori Glenn, “Lawsuit alleges negligence in wreck”, Moultrie Observer, Apr. 10). Under Georgia law, Code 40-8-76.1, item D, the auto dealer is not allowed to defend itself at trial by alleging that Ms. Hiers might not have been ejected from her pickup had she worn her seat belt, but perhaps they will be able to note that auto salespeople are not imbued with the power to hit the brakes from the passenger seat (& letter to editor May 7).
Auto-seller sued for elderly test-driver’s accident
William Cecil Weeks was test-driving a car when he ran a red light and hit Vicki Hiers’s pickup, ejecting her from the vehicle and causing brain damage. This, the Hiers family claims in a lawsuit filed by Michael Strickland, is the fault of Ken Isaacs Chevrolet-Cadillac in Moultrie, Georgia, because they let the 86-year-old test […]
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