Strozier v. Flint Community Schools

Defendant-appellant City of Flint Department of Sanitation1 appeals as of right the trial court’s order denying its motion for summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(7) and (10). We affirm.

I. FACTS

This case arose out of a collision between a school bus and a garbage truck that injured Alexus Strozier,2 a passenger on the school bus. On April 2,2007, city of Flint sanitation department employee Mathew Dingel and his partner, Aaron Slagg, were collecting garbage on Fleming Road. Dingel drove the garbage truck, making periodic, brief, temporary stops in the right lane to allow Slagg to collect…