When Virginia resident Morgan Lee Hanks’ Mitsubishi Pajero collided with the Dodge Durango driven by Pennsylvania native Brian Mark Patton, who died in the accident, the ensuing motor vehicle litigation was anything but ordinary.
To begin with, Hanks was a dog handler working for a defense contractor, Combat Support Associates, which has headquarters in Texas and California. Patton and David Morgan, who was a passenger in the Durango, were both serving active tours of duty for the U.S. Naval Reserve at the time. And the accident happened in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert as Hanks was attempting to pass a U.S. Army convoy transporting troops from Kuwait International Airport to an Army base in Buehring, Kuwait.
