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Pacific Drilling sued for accident
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Posted on Apr 08 2005
A local contracting firm was sued for damages yesterday over a traffic accident that took place in Kannat Tabla in June 2004.
Construction and Material Supply Inc., through attorneys Wesley M. Bogdan and S. Joshua Berger, filed the civil action against Pacific Drilling Ltd. for alleged negligence.
CMS asked the Superior Court to order Pacific Drilling to pay general and special damages, among other things.
In the complaint, Bogdan and Berger said the accident occurred at about 8:30am on June 7, 2004, when Pacific Drilling employee Roger F. Impelido was driving a Caterpillar payloader down Kannat Tabla Drive.
At the same time, CMS employee was driving up the drive in a semi-tractor truck, pulling two cement carriers.
The attorneys said that some 150 feet outside the entrance of Black Micro Building on Kannat Tabla Drive, the payloader driven by Impelido swerved right and then left just as the two vehicles were passing.
As a result, the bucket portion of the payloader struck a front side and punctured the casing of the second bulk cement carrier pulled by Nape. This, in turn, caused nearly all of the cement in the carrier to fall on the road until Name reached CMS’ storage area.
Bogdan and Berger said the carrier was severely damaged and could not be used until repair work was complete.
The attorneys argued that Impelido violated a provision of the law requiring all vehicles to be operated on the right half of the road when, due to his negligence, the bucket crossed over and invaded the left-hand half of the road and struck the tire of the bulk cement carrier pulled by Nape.
Further, they said that Impelido failed to exercise care when he continued to drive in a southern direction down Kannat Tabla Drive at the point of meeting the vehicle driven by Nape. They maintained that Pacific Drilling’s employee should have backed the payloader to a place in the highway where it was possible for the vehicles to safely pass each other, as required by law.
“These actions, as well as others to be proven at trail, were the result of the negligence of the defendant Pacific Drilling’s employee (driver) and was the proximate cause of the property damage suffered by CMS,” Bogdan and Berger said.
