Court of Appeals of New York

In a negligence case involving a police vehicle which abruptly came to a near-stop in front of plaintiff's vehicle on a busy highway, which plaintiff did not collide with, but was instead rear ended by defendant's vehicle, a judgment finding that police officer's conduct was not a proximate cause of the accident, as a matter of law, because plaintiff was able to avoid collision with the police vehicle is reversed where, on this record, the jury could have rationally found that the officer's conduct was a substantial cause of the collision between plaintiff and defendant even though there was no contact between plaintiff's and the police vehicle.

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• Decided 06/12/2008
• Published 06/12/2008

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• Court of Appeals of New York

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