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PLAINTIFF PEDESTRIAN ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT CASE, EVEN IF THE CROSSING LIGHT CHANGED WHILE PLAINTIFF WAS CROSSING HE WAS ENTITLED TO PROCEED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in this bus-pedestrian accident case should have been granted. The court noted that even if the cross signal changed while plaintiff was crossing, he was permitted to proceed once he started crossing:

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Plaintiff established his entitlement to partial summary judgment through his testimony that he was crossing the intersection within the crosswalk and with the light in his favor, when defendants’ bus struck him while making a left turn … .. The testimony of defendant bus driver does not contradict plaintiff’s testimony that he was in the crosswalk, since the driver did not see plaintiff until the moment of impact. The driver’s observation of a white crossing signal before commencing his turn also does not contradict plaintiff’s testimony that he started crossing with the light in his favor. …

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The court should not have considered the videotape footage defendants provided as defendants neither authenticated it nor even showed that it had any relevance to the accident at issue … . It indicates, at most, that it was raining. Even if it showed, as defendants claim, that the pedestrian cross signal changed as plaintiff was crossing, that would not help defendants, as plaintiff was permitted to proceed across the avenue, once he started crossing with the signal in his favor (see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1112 [b], [c]…). Torres v Werner Bus Lines, Inc., 2018 NY Slip Op 00483, First Dept 1-25-18

NEGLIGENCE (BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT, PLAINTIFF PEDESTRIAN ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT CASE, EVEN IF THE CROSSING LIGHT CHANGED WHILE PLAINTIFF WAS CROSSING HE WAS ENTITLED TO PROCEED (FIRST DEPT))/VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW  (BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT, PLAINTIFF PEDESTRIAN ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT CASE, EVEN IF THE CROSSING LIGHT CHANGED WHILE PLAINTIFF WAS CROSSING HE WAS ENTITLED TO PROCEED (FIRST DEPT))/TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS  (BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT, PLAINTIFF PEDESTRIAN ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT CASE, EVEN IF THE CROSSING LIGHT CHANGED WHILE PLAINTIFF WAS CROSSING HE WAS ENTITLED TO PROCEED (FIRST DEPT))/PEDESTRIANS (TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, PLAINTIFF PEDESTRIAN ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS BUS-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT CASE, EVEN IF THE CROSSING LIGHT CHANGED WHILE PLAINTIFF WAS CROSSING HE WAS ENTITLED TO PROCEED (FIRST DEPT))

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