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Transit Authority Not Liable Under the Emergency Doctrine As a Matter of Law

The Second Department determined the defendant New York City Transit Authority was not liable to the plaintiff as a matter of law under the emergency doctrine.  Plaintiff was a passenger in the Transit Authority’s vehicle when defendant Franco allegedly backed out of a driveway at a high rate of speed (to get over a snow bank) into the path of the Transit Authority’s vehicle. “The common-law emergency doctrine ‘recognizes that when an actor is faced with a sudden and unexpected circumstance which leaves little or no time for thought, deliberation or consideration, or causes the actor to be reasonably so disturbed that the actor must make a speedy decision without weighing alternative courses of conduct, the actor may not be negligent if the actions taken are reasonable and prudent in the emergency context, provided the actor has not created the emergency’  … . ‘Although the existence of an emergency and the reasonableness of the response to it generally present questions of fact, those issues may in appropriate circumstances be determined as a matter of law”…”. Majid v New York City Tr. Auth., 2015 NY Slip Op 03809, 2nd Dept 5-6-15

 

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