BLACKFORD v. TAGGART

No. 6827.

672 P.2d 888 (1983)

Susan J. BLACKFORD, and Robert C. Blackford, as husband and wife, Appellants, v. Wayne I. TAGGART, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale J. Walther, Mike Flanigan, Clark, Walther & Flanigan, Anchorage, for appellants.

Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Fairbanks, for appellee.

Before BURKE, C.J., RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ., and SHORTELL, Judge.


OPINION

SHORTELL, Judge.

This case arises out of a simple rear end collision which took place on a wet, dark December evening in Fairbanks. Robert Blackford, an attorney and plaintiff below, had stopped his car on the westbound side of Farewell Street, in front of a child care center, just before he was hit from behind by a car driven by Wayne Taggart. Taggart had been driving about 20 m.p.h., three to four car lengths behind Blackford's car, and slowed...

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