Colon v. Bridge Plaza Rental Corp.

This wrongful death action arose out of a night-time collision between the car operated by the decedent, Julio Colon, and the trucks of the defendant that were stopped on the Cross Bronx Expressway in connection with Broadway Maintenance Company’s work o.f replacing burned-out overhead light bulbs on the city’s highways. Broadway Maintenance, in patrolling the highways to look for outages, burnouts, broken lamps and similar defective and inoperative equipment relevant to overhead illumination, utilized trucks owned by the defendant. The patrol sent but by Broadway Maintenance *15which was…