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Chemical Anti-Icing
Santa Fe, NM: (Jan-03-08) The family of Patricia Vigil-Booth, 53, brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the state Department of Transportation, after Booth died in a road accident on Dec. 15, 2006. Records state that the death occurred when her car slammed into another car being loaded onto a tow truck. It was the fourth and final crash that day on the road between Los Alamos and Pojoaque. The Booth family sued in the District Court in Santa Fe five months after the crash, alleging that the agency did nothing to correct dangerously slick road conditions or to warn motorists. During the lawsuit, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department attributed the crash to a chemical anti-icing solution, magnesium chloride.
The Department of Transportation had announced earlier that it would no longer use the chemical and instead would use salt water as a de-icer. Department researchers raised concerns in a 2003 study about using anti-icing agents in the absence of recent precipitation that might wash residual oil and gasoline from roadways. As part of a settlement reached, the State of New Mexico has agreed to pay $550,000 to the family of the victim as compensation for her wrongful death. [SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN: CAR CRASH]
Published on Jan-6-08
The Department of Transportation had announced earlier that it would no longer use the chemical and instead would use salt water as a de-icer. Department researchers raised concerns in a 2003 study about using anti-icing agents in the absence of recent precipitation that might wash residual oil and gasoline from roadways. As part of a settlement reached, the State of New Mexico has agreed to pay $550,000 to the family of the victim as compensation for her wrongful death. [
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