Pontello v. County of Onondaga
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCHNEPP, J.
We are called on to consider the potential liability of the defendant county for damages arising from an unwitnessed single-car accident in which the motor vehicle left the paved portion of the highway due ostensibly to driver error, traveled along the road’s shoulder and an abutting ditch and crashed into a culvert. Special Term found that the issue of proximate cause “is one of, at best, speculation and surmise without any factual basis” and it granted summary judgment to the county because “[t]here is simply no triable issue.” We disagree.
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