Banchs v. Colón

We issued a writ of review to examine the application made by the trial court of the sudden emergency doctrine, *473also known as imminent peril, to the particular facts of this case.

The facts are as follows: An adult male, 54 years of age, a truck driver, while operating a large truck along a public highway of Puerto Rico was frightened when he saw a wasp fly into the cab of the truck and applied the brakes suddenly, and as a result of the violent braking a youngster who was riding a bicycle behind the truck, whom the truck had passed 10 seconds before, ran into the vehicle suffering…