Santos v. Booth
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wilma Guzman, J.), entered April 28, 2014, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident, granted plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
“[A] rear-end collision with a stopped or stopping vehicle establishes a prima facie case of negligence on the part of the driver of the rear vehicle, and imposes a duty on the part of the operator of the moving vehicle to come forward with an adequate nonnegligent explanation for the accident” (Cabrera v Rodriguez, 72…
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