JOSEPH KIRCHGAESSNER v. HERNANDEZ, JR.


40 A.D.3d 437 (2007)

836 N.Y.S.2d 170

RAINER JOSEPH KIRCHGAESSNER, as Administrator of the Estate of RACHEL KIRCHGAESSNER, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. ISRAEL HERNANDEZ, JR., et al., Appellants.

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

Decided May 22, 2007.


Uncontradicted eyewitness deposition testimony and police investigative evidence establish that plaintiff's decedent was crossing the six-lane Sixth Avenue from the northeast to the northwest corner, in the crosswalk with a favorable walk signal, when she was hit by the rear, right side of defendants' long-bed truck. The truck had a green light, and its driver, after making a wide, right-hand turn from westbound 55th Street through the crosswalk, was steering the truck back...

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