Curtis v. Solonchak

The plaintiff allegedly was injured when his motorcycle struck a vehicle driven by the defendant Lisa Solonchak, who was preparing to make a left turn at an intersection. At her deposition, Solonchak testified that her view to the left was obstructed for a distance of three or four car-lengths by two utility poles, so she had to move her vehicle forward into the intersection to see traffic coming from that direction. She did not see the *850plaintiffs motorcycle until she moved past the poles. The accident occurred seconds later. One of the poles at the intersection was an old pole, to which only…