I have an interesting dilemma...my son was driving my 99 Dodge Grand Caravan ES to work just after the recent blizzard, and hit a pile of snow in the middle of the road from somebody's freshly plowed driveway. It damaged the front valance to the point where it will have to be replaced. My question is, who's at fault? My son, who couldn't avoid the snowpile, or the idiot that put it there in the first place? The valance is cracked on the drivers' side...which tells me that the snow was very carelessly piled across a lane of traffic. The highway is a heavily travelled state road, and 2 semis were ahead of my son, and both of them hit the snowpile, too.
I realize that snow drifts, but across a whole lane of a busy highway? The homeowner hasn't been very easy to deal with. I think he created the hazard, or whoever plowed out his driveway[as it turns out, a friend of his, a cop...].
Dan
