Centeno v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Long Island Bus

OPINION OF THE COURT

Daniel Palmieri, J.

This is a motion by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority defendant for summary judgment pursuant to CPLR 3212 dismissing the complaint based on liability and the failure of *618the plaintiff to have sustained a “serious injury” under Insurance Law § 5102. The motion is granted and the complaint is dismissed.

Plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s bus on November 16, 1999. She left her seat as the bus approached her stop, was holding onto a pole when the bus “stopped suddenly” and she fell because “the impact was very heavy and I couldn’t keep on…