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- Title: Rossell V. Volkswagen Of America
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 28, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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We view the facts in the light most favorable to the party who prevailed at trial. McFarlin v. Hall, 127 Ariz. 220, 224, 619 P.2d 729, 733 (1980). This action arises from a 1970, one-vehicle accident. At the time of the accident Julie, then eleven months old, was sleeping in the front passenger seat of a 1958 Volkswagen driven by her mother. At approximately 11:00 p.m., on State Route 93, Ms. Rossell fell asleep and the vehicle drifted to the right, off the paved roadway. The sound of the car hitting a sign awakened Rossell, and she attempted to correct the path of the car, but oversteered. The car flipped over, skidded off the road and landed on its roof at the bottom of a cement culvert. The force of the accident dislodged and fractured the battery which was located inside the passenger compartment. In the seven hours it took Rossell to regain full consciousness and then extract herself and her daughter from the car, the broken battery slowly dripped sulfuric acid on Julie. The acid severely burned her face, chest, arm, neck, part of her back and shoulder, and both hands. Since the accident Julie has undergone extensive corrective surgery but remains seriously disfigured and in need of additional surgery.