In English v. State (1982), 35 Ill. Ct. Cl. 180, the Court denied a claim for personal injuries and for death as a result of a factual situation which was similar to the case at hand. The Court denied the claim on the basis of a showing of no proximate cause. That case also involved standing water on the roadway. However, in the English case, a head-on collision was involved. At a location where water was present on the roadway, a car driven by Steven Glasgow crossed the center line and collided head-on with a car driven by Claimant Diane English. The driver of the automobile, Steven Glasgow, survived. However, a passenger was killed. The trooper investigating that accident indicated that there was standing water in the roadway; however, another witness testified that there was not. The only two occurrence witnesses who testified in the English case were Claimant English and a passenger in her automobile. The passenger in the Glasgow automobile was dead, and the driver, Steven Glasgow, did not testify. Since it was his car which crossed the center line, the Court found that the Claimants had failed to prove that the standing water in the roadway was the proximate cause of the accident.