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Plaintiff Who Had Right of Way Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment

The Second Department determined summary judgment should have been granted in an intersection collision case.  The plaintiff had the right of way and defendants’ vehicle failed to yield.  No question of fact was raised about plaintiff’s comparative fault:

The operator of a vehicle with the right-of-way is entitled to assume that the opposing driver will obey the traffic laws requiring him or her to yield … . However, a driver who has the right-of-way has a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid a collision with another vehicle already in the intersection, including keeping a proper lookout and to see what can be seen through the proper use of his or her senses … . “Although a driver with a right-of-way also has a duty to use reasonable care to avoid a collision, . . . a driver with the right-of-way who has only seconds to react to a vehicle which has failed to yield is not comparatively negligent for failing to avoid the collision” … . Bennett v Granata, 2014 NY Slip Op 03968, 2nd Dept 6-4-14

 

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