Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability is granted.
A rear-end collision with a stopped vehicle creates a prima facie case of negligence with respect to the operator of the moving vehicle and imposes a duty on "that operator to rebut the inference of negligence by providing a nonnegligent explanation for the collision" (Klopchin v Masri,
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