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This case involves a male Plaintiff who was injured in a serious automobile accident caused by a pool of water that had collected on the highway from a broken water main. At the time of the incident in question, the man was driving southbound on a two lane highway when he came upon construction workers who were repairing a breached water main. The workers had closed down the left-hand lane, however the right-hand lane was kept open to traffic, despite the fact that it was also covered in water from the leak. When driving through the water the Plaintiff’s vehicle hydroplaned, causing him to crash into the median divider at a high rate of speed. The man had to be airlifted from the scene, and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. It was alleged that the construction workers should have closed both lanes of traffic due to the severity of the leak.
