22-Pound Boulder Dropped From A Highway Overpass

In a much-publicized St. Louis case, a minor child and her father, on behalf of their deceased mother and wife , O.M., filed suit against the state highway department and a defendant who dropped a 22-pound boulder over an overpass in the City of St. Louis.

O.M. was decapitated and killed when the individual defendant dropped a chunk of concrete curb over the overpass onto and through O.M.'s windshield.

A judgment was granted against the individual defendant for $1.4 Million Dollars. KWMWB argued the case against the State Highway Department before the State Supreme Court. The attorneys for O.M. argued that overpasses on major thoroughfares should be protected or guarded to prohibit objects from being dropped onto the highway from above.

Though the ruling was in favor of the State Highway Department, the firm continues to pursue causes for a safer highway system.