TAVERAS v. AMIR


24 A.D.3d 655 (2005)

808 N.Y.S.2d 368

JESUS TAVERAS et al., Respondents, v. MUHAMMAD A. AMIR et al., Defendants, and PLATFORM TAXI, INC., et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents. EMERITO P. DELEON et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellants. (Action No. 1.) JACQUELINE SEERY et al., Respondents, v. PLATFORM TAXI SERVICES CORP. et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents. EMERITO P. DELEON et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellants; MUHAMMAD A. AMIR et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (Action No. 2.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 19, 2005.


Ordered that the orders are affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs payable to the plaintiffs Jesus Taveras and Urbana Taveras.

Proof of a rear-end collision establishes a prima facie case of negligence on the part of the driver of the vehicle that strikes the forward vehicle and imposes a duty upon such operator to explain how the accident occurred (see Moran v. Singh, 10 A.D.3d 707, 708 [2004]; Velazquez...

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