{"id":3065,"date":"2023-09-05T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/unavoidable-accident-jury-instruction\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:24:31","slug":"unavoidable-accident-jury-instruction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/professional-attorney-information-center\/sample-trial-documents\/pattern-jury-instructions\/unavoidable-accident-jury-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Unavoidable Accident Jury Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unavoidable accident is an inevitable occurrence that is not to be foreseen or prevented by vigilance, care, and attention and not occasioned by or contributed to in any manner by an act or omission of the party claiming the accident was unavoidable. And in this case, the defendant claims that the accident was unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"heading4\"><em>Frye v. Carter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At one time, this was a Maryland pattern jury instruction before the court\u2019s opinion in <a href=\"\/professional-attorney-information-center\/maryland-law-update\/fry-v-carter\/\">Fry v. Carter, 375 Md. 341 (2003)<\/a>. In Fry, a man was working on a road construction crew at I-270 near the exit ramp to I-70 when he was struck by roof trusses extending over the side of a flatbed tractor-trailer. At Miller &amp; Zois, our attorneys have handled a number of cases involving tractor-trailers or other big truck accidents, and the injuries are, unfortunately, almost always very serious. In this case, the man struck by the truck was killed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/professional-attorney-information-center\/sample-trial-documents\/pattern-jury-instructions\/unavoidable-accident-jury-instruction\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Unavoidable Accident Jury Instruction\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unavoidable accident is an inevitable occurrence that is not to be foreseen or prevented by vigilance, care, and attention and not occasioned by or contributed to in any manner by an act or omission of the party claiming the accident was unavoidable. And in this case, the defendant claims that the accident was unavoidable. 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