Matthews
Matthews v. County of San Bernardino
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Timlin, J.
*1042 Opinion
Introduction
Kimberley Renee Matthews (plaintiff) has appealed from a judgment entered in favor of defendants County of San Bernardino (County) and County Service Area 70, Improvement Zone G (CSA70), a special road maintenance district 1 (collectively defendants). Judgment was entered after defendants’ motions for summary judgment were granted.
Facts
Plaintiff, a minor, suffered serious injury to her left hand, which was crushed when the vehicle in which she was a passenger rolled over after striking the berm on the right-hand shoulder of Desert Front Road.
Plaintiff sued County, CSA70, the Oaks Spring Valley Road Commission and several individual advisory road commissioners for “Negligent Road Maintenance,” negligence, and dangerous condition of public property to recover for injuries she sustained in the motor vehicle accident which took place on October 15, 1987, on Desert Front Road in an unincorporated area of County near Victorville. Plaintiff alleged that County “so negligently owned, leased, operated, controlled, designed, maintained, repaired, graded, supervised and managed Desert Front Road as to create and maintain it in a dangerous and hazardous…