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USE OF HIS SENSES
Q: While riding my motorcycle, I was involved in a collision with a
truck, at an intersection in the City. The witnesses agree that I had been
traveling northbound, and he had been traveling eastbound. One says that I
had stopped at the stop sign and looked both ways multiple times before
proceeding into the intersection. Personally, I have no recollection. For
traffic traveling on my street, the intersection was controlled by a stop sign.
On his street, by nothing.
Although the truck driver says that he never saw my motorcycle
prior to the impact, the evidence shows that the front of his truck struck the
center of my cycle.
A: The truck driver is likely to contend that you failed to yield the
right-of-way, in violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1142(a). Even if this is
so, there can be more than one proximate cause of an accident.
A driver traveling with the right-of-way may be found to have
contributed to the happening of the accident. Your attorney will seek
evidence that the truck driver did not use reasonable care to avoid this
tragedy – such as evidence of alcohol, cell phone usage or other driver distraction,
or of speeding. He failed to see what was there to be seen through the
proper use of his senses.
“Chefs of The Year” tour the QCP Children’s Center in an��cipa��on of the
agency’s signature Evening of Fine Food event.
QCP’s Evening of Fine Food will be held this year on
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:30 PM at Terrace On The Park
This year’s honorees, our “Chefs of the Year”
Thomas J. Grech, President & CEO, Queens Chamber of Commerce
Donna Furey, A��orney, Law Offices of Donna Furey and
Dominick To��no, Photographer, Dominick To��no Photography
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