Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The defendant violated Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1141 when he entered an intersection, attempted a left turn, and, upon seeing the headlight of the injured plaintiff's motorcycle, stopped in the intersection with his truck partially blocking the oncoming traffic lane. This violation constituted negligence as a matter of law and could not be disregarded by the jury (see Klein v Byalik,
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