Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.
A party is entitled to an emergency doctrine charge if, under some reasonable view of the evidence, the actor was confronted with a sudden and unforeseen occurrence not of the actor's making (see, Rivera v New York City Tr. Auth.,
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