Legal Opinion
Scarangella v. Thomas Built Buses, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 6, 1999PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
A school bus being operated in reverse by a coemployee struck and severely injured plaintiff Concetta Scarangella, a school bus driver for third-party defendant Huntington Coach Corp., Inc. The accident occurred in Huntington’s bus parking yard on September 26, 1988. The vehicle was one of 10 new school buses that defendant Thomas Built Buses, Inc., sold Huntington in 1988. At that time, Thomas offered buyers as an optional safety feature a back-up alarm that would automatically sound when a driver shifted the bus into reverse gear, but Huntington chose not to…
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