Legal Opinion
Church v. Callanan Industries, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 19, 2002PublishedCited by 248 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
Plaintiff Ned Church, age nine, received catastrophic spinal injuries December 26, 1992, when the driver of a Volkswagen Jetta in which he was a rear seat occupant fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle veered off the southbound traffic portion of the New York State Thruway near milepost marker 132.7, careened down a nontraversable embankment and crashed in a V-shaped ditch at the bottom. The Thruway site where the vehicle left the highway was within a 22-mile resurfacing and safety-improving project, which was completed in 1986 pursuant to an agreement between…
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