Appellate Court of Illinois August 10, 1976, 75-231 (Hartseil v. Calligan)

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

On April 5, 1973, plaintiff, Kirt Hartseil, then age 16, was riding as a passenger on a motorcycle driven by Roger Markle in a northerly direction on Western Avenue, near its intersection with 7th Avenue in Peoria, Illinois. At this intersection Western Avenue is four lanes wide with two lanes of traffic going both north and south.