MATTER OF VAETH v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

4746, 102555/10.

83 A.D.3d 460 (2011)

922 N.Y.S.2d 283

In the Matter of DENNIS VAETH, Petitioner, v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES et al., Respondents.

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

Decided April 7, 2011.


Petitioner's tractor-trailer hit a disabled vehicle stopped in a breakdown lane, pushing it into a concrete median. As a result of the crash, one passenger was killed and another was injured. As petitioner admitted that he was driving his large vehicle at a speed of 50 to 55 miles per hour while the road was wet and it was raining and dark, respondent's finding that petitioner violated Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1180 (a) was...

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