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SUN GLARE DID NOT CREATE AN EMERGENCY FOR THE BUS DRIVER WHO STRUCK PLAINTIFF PEDESTRIAN (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, noted that the defendant bus driver and bus company did not raise a question of fact on the applicability of the emergency doctrine.. Defendants alleged sun glare prevented the driver from seeing plaintiff pedestrian in the crosswalk:

… [T]he defendants failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether Ruff’s foreseeable encounter with sun glare, while driving on a route with which he was familiar, was an emergency not of his own making, which left him with only seconds to react and virtually no opportunity to avoid a collision with the plaintiff … . Morales-Rodriguez v MTA Bus Co., 2022 NY Slip Op 01781, Second Dept 3-16-22

Practice Point: Here the bus driver alleged sun glare created an emergency which should excuse his striking plaintiff pedestrian. The allegation did not raise a triable question of fact.

 

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