Shaw v. Wuttke

In considering it had erred in giving the emergency-doctrine instruction the trial court reasoned the *452defendant was negligent m the management and control of his car, which negligence contributed to the creation of the emergency. In reaching this conclusion the trial court assumed the plaintiff was riding his bicycle at a speed of five miles per hour and reasoned that at that rate the plaintiff would take two and a half seconds to travel from his position in the alley where he was first seen by the defendant to the point of impact in the street and the defendant going 20 miles an hour, which…