| Rawls v Simon |
| 2018 NY Slip Op 00016 [157 AD3d 418] |
| January 2, 2018 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Darryls Rawls, Respondent, v David Simon et al., Appellants. |
Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale (Stuart M. Bodoff of counsel), for appellants.
Diamond & Diamond, Brooklyn (Stuart Diamond of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth L. Thompson, Jr., J.), entered on or about February 22, 2017, which denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Triable issues of fact exist in this action where plaintiff pedestrian was struck by defendants'
vehicle. The record shows that the parties disagree about where the accident occurred with
plaintiff asserting that he emerged from the back of a bus, raising an issue as to whether
defendant driver had an opportunity to see him prior to the collision, whereas defendant
maintains that plaintiff stepped out from in front of the bus, giving him no time to react.
Moreover, defendant testified that he was traveling between 25 and 27 miles per hour at the time
of the impact, but given that the front of the bus, by his own testimony, was 2