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LEGAL BATTLE * Canada - Trucking firm wins legal secrecy fight
Lawyers for a Canadian trucking company that's suing the state of New Hampshire over a fatal 2007 crash on an icy highway have won a legal battle to open police reports that state officials had fought to keep secret
Montreal,Quebec,CAN -The Gazzette/Canwest News Service, by Randy Boswell -July 20, 2009: -- ... In a case that could have major implications for government snow-clearing agencies across the U.S., Quebec transport firm Fidele Tremblay is seeking $2.5 million from the state... The lawsuit is over a collision between a car and one of the company's trucks that killed six-year-old Brendon Mahoney along a slippery stretch of Interstate 93 near the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border... The company and its driver, Francis Hammond, have already agreed to pay the boy's mother, Kimberley Kyle, $2.5 million in a settlement reached last year... But the Rimouski-area firm is blaming New Hampshire's Department of Transportation for "recklessly" failing to respond on the day of the accident to repeated requests from police to salt or sand the treacherous roadway, which one state trooper described as an "ice rink" when the crash occurred on Feb. 15, 2007... But pointing to e-mail evidence of a dispute between police and transportation officials about the state of the highway at the time, Hammond's lawyers argued the records could bolster their case that Interstate 93 was a death trap that day due to the state road crews' neglect...
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