Cross-Examination of Diana Simpson

(Defendant Driver)

BACKGROUND

  • FULL NAME AND CURRENT ADDRESS
  • WHEN WERE YOU BORN, JUST TURNED 22 AT THE TIME OF THIS ACCIDENT?
  • WHERE WERE YOU LIVING AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT?

JOB AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT

  • AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT YOU HAD A JOB?
  • YOU WERE WORKING FOR A FAMILY RUN BUSINESS?
  • YOUR ROLE IN THE BUSINESS WAS TO DRIVE THE NURSES WITHOUT LICENSES TO AND FROM THE HOSPITALS?
  • YOU DROVE THE HIS TRUCK FOR THAT, THIS TRUCK WAS NOT YOUR PERSONAL VEHICLE ?
  • DID YOU TAKE ANY SPECIAL DRIVING CLASS FOR THAT JOB?
  • DID YOU EVER HAVE A JOB AS A DRIVER BEFORE THIS JOB WITH YOUR DAD’S BUSINESS?

HOURS BEFORE THE ACCIDENT

  • WHAT TIME DID THIS ACCIDENT TAKE PLACE?
  • WHAT DID YOU DO THAT EVENING BEFORE THE ACCIDENT?
  • YOU WERE TO DRIVE A NURSE TO HARBOR HOSPITAL ?
  • WHAT TIME DID YOU LEAVE YOUR HOUSE?
  • HOW WERE THE ROADS?
  • SNOW ON THE GROUND, ICE ON THE GROUND, SNOWING D 14?
  • GOING SLOWER BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER?
  • MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO THE HOSPITAL, MAIN ROADS?

ON THE WAY BACK

  • AFTER YOU DROPPED OFF THE NURSE, DID THE ROADS GET WORSE, BETTER OR STAY THE SAME?
  • SNOW ON THE GROUND, ICE ON THE GROUND, SNOWING D 14?
  • DID YOU TAKE THAT SAME DIRECT ROUTE HOME ON THE MAIN ROADS?
  • YOU TOOK A SHORT CUT HOME D 12, 14?
  • WHAT ROADS DID YOU TAKE ON YOUR SHORT CUT?
  • THE ROADS YOU TOOK HOME WERE NOT HIGHWAYS?
  • THEY WERE RESIDENTIAL ROADS?
  • WERE THEY SIDE STREETS ?
  • YOU TOOK A DIFFERENT ROUTE HOME TO GO TO A FRIENDS HOUSE TO PICK UP SOME CLOTHES D 14?
  • THOSE SIDE ROADS WERE WORSE THAN 97 AND 695 D 16?

POINT PLEASANT ROAD

  • BEFORE THE NIGHT OF THIS ACCIDENT YOU WERE ON PP BEFORE?
  • YOU KNEW IT WAS ONE LANE IN AND ONE LANE OUT?
  • THERE WERE BENDS AND CURVES IN THE ROAD?
  • BEFORE THE ACCIDENT DID YOU SLIP ON ICE D17?
  • WHAT IS THE SPEED LIMIT ON PP ROAD?
  • WHAT SPEED WERE YOU TRYING TO MAINTAIN ON PP ROAD ?
  • BEFORE YOU GO TO THIS BEND YOU HAD BEEN TRAVELING 20 MPH AND SLIPPED ON THE ICE?
  • YOU SLOWED DOWN THEN PICKED BACK UP TO 20 BEFORE THIS ACCIDENT?
  • WHAT WAS YOUR SPEED WHEN YOU HIT THIS BEND 20 MPH D, 21?
  • WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU GOT TO THAT BEND GOING 20 MPH ?
  • YOU CROSSED OVER THE DOUBLE YELLOW LINES?
  • THE FRONT OF YOUR TRUCK HIT HIM HEAD ON ?
  • THE IMPACT WAS ON HIS SIDE OF THE ROAD?
  • WERE YOU ABLE TO TALK TO HIM AFTER THE ACCIDENT?
  • WHAT WAS HE DOING IN THE CAR AFTER THE ACCIDENT?
  • DID YOU SEE ANY BLOOD ?
  • DID ANYONE ELSE STOP BY THE SCENE?
  • WHO CALLED ERNESTO’S GIRLFRIEND?
  • YOU WERE AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT FOR A WHILE ?
  • WAS IT SNOWING WHILE YOU WERE AT THE SCENE?
  • DID YOU SEE THE ICE ON THE GROUND THAT YOU SLIPPED ON IN THE ROADWAY?

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