Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Mehretab

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (“MARTA”) appeals a judgment based on a jury verdict in favor of Mesfin Mehretab on his claims arising from an automobile accident in which a MARTA bus pulled into Mehretab’s lane of traffic and forced him off the road and into a sign. The witnesses testified that Mehretab and a MARTA bus were traveling in the same direction on a multilane street when a third vehicle pulled into the lane of travel of the MARTA bus. When the bus then pulled into Mehretab’s lane of travel, Mehretab ran off the road. The MARTA bus did not…