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PEDESTRIAN STRUCK WHILE LAWFULLY IN CROSSWALK ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT, SUPREME COURT REVERSED.

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiffs were entitled to summary judgment in this pedestrian wrongful death case. Plaintiffs’ decedent was crossing the street with the walk signal when she was struck. There was no evidence of the pedestrian’s comparative negligence:

A pedestrian who has the right of way is entitled to anticipate that motorists will obey the traffic laws that require them to yield … . Here, the plaintiffs established, through admissible evidence, that [defendant driver]  failed to yield the right of way to the decedent, who was crossing the street within the crosswalk with the pedestrian “WALK” signal in her favor … . The plaintiffs’ prima facie showing was buttressed by [defendant driver’s] admission that he did not see the decedent and that he struck her … . As neither the plaintiffs’ submissions nor the defendants’ opposition papers revealed any triable issue of fact regarding the decedent’s comparative negligence … , the Supreme Court should have granted that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was for summary judgment on the issue of liability … . Huang v Franco, 2017 NY Slip Op 02629, 2nd Dept 4-5-17

NEGLIGENCE (PEDESTRIAN STRUCK WHILE LAWFULLY IN CROSSWALK ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT, SUPREME COURT REVERSED)/PEDESTRIANS (PEDESTRIAN STRUCK WHILE LAWFULLY IN CROSSWALK ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT, SUPREME COURT REVERSED)/CROSSWALKS  (PEDESTRIAN STRUCK WHILE LAWFULLY IN CROSSWALK ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT, SUPREME COURT REVERSED)

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