CRANE v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY


60 A.D.3d 467 (2009)

874 N.Y.S.2d 112

SAUNDRA CRANE, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY et al., Appellants.

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

Decided March 10, 2009.


Plaintiff was injured on December 19, 2003, when defendants' bus, on which she was a passenger, allegedly came to a sudden, violent stop near 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. Plaintiff sustained a head injury and a broken clavicle.

Plaintiff established a prima facie case of negligence with deposition testimony that the sudden stop caused a jerk or lurch that was "unusual and violent" (see Urquhart v New York City Tr. Auth...

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