Twenty-five-year-old Blake Davis
is suing fellow motorist
Michael Kerner
for causing an accident when
he was driving in the median.
>> Judge Judy: Each of you claim
that the other is responsible
for an automobile accident
where both of your cars
were either totaled
or very badly damaged.
Mr. Davis, tell me
the date of this accident.
>> February 21, 2018.
>> Judge Judy: What time?
>> Around 5:09 p.m.
>> Judge Judy: Where had
you been that day?
>> I'd been working.
>> Judge Judy:
What are your hours for work?
>> I work from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
Every Monday through Friday.
>> Judge Judy:
And who do you live with?
>> I live with two roommates.
>> Judge Judy: And I assume
you were on your way home.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: And where had you
been that day, Mr. Kerner?
>> I was coming home from work.
I had been at work all day
from 8:00 to 5:00.
>> Judge Judy:
And where were you going?
>> I was going home.
>> Judge Judy: You take
the same route every day?
>> Basically.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, sir,
so you can go over there.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Explain to me.
Your car is the...
>> So I am the P car,
and Mr. Kerner is the D car.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
>> What I was trying to do
was take a left to go eastbound.
>> Judge Judy: You were crossing
over traffic.
>> Correct. I had to wait
for the westbound traffic
to stop for me,
make a gap so that I could then
proceed into the median lane
and then merge into the
eastbound direction of traffic.
>> Judge Judy: How many?
>> There's five lanes total.
>> Judge Judy:
And this is rush hour.
>> Correct.
You were coming out of where?
>> So my work
is located right here.
>> Judge Judy: So that's
a parking lot.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: So you were
coming out of a parking lot,
and you were going over
two lanes of traffic.
According to you,
it stopped for you.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: The defendant was
in the third lane of traffic.
Is that a turn lane?
>> Ma'am, that is a median lane.
>> Judge Judy: Is there
a solid line?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
You have a photo of that?
>> Yes, I do.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like
to see it.
Does that line become
a nonsolid line down at the end
of the street where
you can make your left turn?
>> Yes, ma'am.
In the police report,
it is recorded as 575 feet away
from the actual crash.
>> Judge Judy:
What's on Kent Lane?
>> Would you like me to go
back to the graphic?
>> Judge Judy: Yes, tell me
what is on Kent Lane.
>> Kent Lane, to the left?
>> Judge Judy: Yes.
>> So right here would be
a Fred Meyer's grocery store,
which is where
he was trying to go,
and it says that specifically
in the police report.
>> Judge Judy: Now can I see
the police report, please?
>> Yes, ma'am.
Attached to the police report
are two witness statements
that are...
>> Judge Judy:
Did your insurance company
pay for the metal gate
that you went through?
>> They settled for a 50 percent
claim because my insurance
company deemed that I was
50 percent responsible,
so they settled with them
for 50 percent.
>> Judge Judy: For the gate.
>> Yeah, for the Ed Nelson's RV,
yes, yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: I assume your
insurance company did not.
>> My insurance company
deemed Mr. Kerner
100 percent responsible.
>> Judge Judy: No, I don't care
what your insurance
company does.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy:
I don't care what they did.
>> His insurance company...
>> Judge Judy: I'm asking you
whether your insurance company
paid the other 50 percent
of the gate.
>> No, ma'am,
not that I know of.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Davis,
if Mr. Kerner was going to make
a left turn onto Kent Lane,
what you're suggesting
is that, because there's
a solid line there,
he should have waited
until he got further up
to make his left turn.
>> What I'm suggesting is,
he should've waited until
it was open to get into that
turning lane, to where the...
>> Judge Judy: What do you mean,
until it was open?
It was open,
according to your diagram.
>> May I?
>> Judge Judy: Yes.
It was open,
according to your diagram.
>> So turning into the lane up
until this point,
to where the yellow line stops.
>> Judge Judy: The median lane
where he was going to make
his left turn into Kent
appears to be clear.
What you're telling me is,
there's a solid line
that he should not have crossed
where he did.
You said that's a solid line.
That's the same solid line
that you were crossing.
>> Yes, ma'am.
I guess maybe I just misspoke.
>> Judge Judy: But am I correct?
There's a solid
yellow line there.
>> Yes, ma'am.
You're correct.
>> Judge Judy: Okay,
so you were crossing
over a solid yellow line...
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: ...to make
a turn in traffic,
and you, Mr. Kerner,
were going a little too fast.
>> I could've been going slower.
>> Judge Judy: Yes, and you,
Mr. Kerner,
were going a little too fast.