Mixon
Mixon v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sepulveda, J.
*129 Opinion
A motorist struck and injured a boy walking with his family in a marked crosswalk. The injured boy and his siblings sued the motorist and others for personal injury and emotional distress. This appeal concerns claims against California’s Department of Transportation (State) and Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E).
Plaintiffs sued the State upon allegations that it maintained the street intersection in a dangerous condition (Gov. Code, § 835), and faulted the lighting configuration, lack of traffic control signals and signs, placement of signs, the type of crosswalk markings, and the grade of the intersection. Plaintiffs sued PG&E for allegedly failing to provide adequate lighting with overhead streetlights.
The trial court granted the State and PG&E summary judgment. The court found that the intersection was not in a dangerous condition and that there was no duty to provide lighting. Plaintiffs filed separate notices of appeal for the State and PG&E. We consolidated the appeals for purposes of briefing, argument, and decision. We now affirm the judgments.
I. FACTS
On the evening of February 14, 2006, a father and his three children were walking across a street…