Earlier this week, an 18-year-old pickup truck passenger, Sean Satterfield, 18, died at an intersection in Fort Worth when another pickup truck ran a stop sign, “t-boning” the truck carrying Mr. Satterfield. On Monday, Mr. Satterfield had his life in front of him. Now, his family is looking back on a life cut short by someone else’s carelessness.
Of the many legal issues at work in a situation like the one the Satterfield family faces is whether the other driver’s running of the stop sign constituted negligence per se. That is, did the other driver’s violation of a law designed to protect members of the public, such as Mr. Satterfield, represent a breach of his duty of care as a matter of law? Absent exceptional circumstances, the answer is clear: yes.
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