Wharton
MOUNT VERNON – Jonathan Little tried for five years to prove someone else caused him to crash into a railroad overpass, and Fifth District appellate judges recently ruled that he can keep trying to prove it.
On Dec. 9, they reversed a summary judgment order that St. Clair County Associate Judge Julie Katz entered for Country Mutual Insurance.
“We find there was circumstantial evidence that could potentially establish that Little’s vehicle was struck by a phantom vehicle on March 24, 2015,” Justice Milton Wharton wrote.
Little drove his sister Madie Little’s car in rain that night, on Route 13.
His report for the state transportation department stated that he slowed for a curve due to the rain and a car came up behind him at fast speed.