The record demonstrates as a matter of law that, when plaintiff lost control of her car on the snowy parkway and slid into defendant's lane a mere half a car length ahead of him, defendant was presented with an emergency not of his making that afforded him little or no time for reasoned consideration, and that he cannot be held liable for failing to avoid a collision with plaintiff's car (see Caban v Vega,
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