Martorell v. Ortiz

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene R Bluth, J.), entered October 30, 2014, which denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Summary judgment was properly denied in this action where plaintiff pedestrian was injured when she was struck by a vehicle that left the scene of the accident. A police report noted that an unidentified witness had reported that the vehicle that struck plaintiff was a “suburban”-type vehicle with the same license plate number as the vehicle that was registered to defendant Antonio Ortiz. For…