Ramirez v. Molina

In Ramirez v. Molina (114 A.D.3d 540, 980 N.Y.S.2d 433 [1st Dept. 2014]), the Court held as follows: "Defendant Juan Carlos Molina testified that he first saw the eight year old plaintiff, who had no memory of the incident, two to three seconds before impact, when she was approximately one foot away from his vehicle. Traveling 12 miles per hour, he hit his brakes and turned his wheel to the right in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the accident. It was also unrefuted that the infant plaintiff left the safety of the sidewalk, attempted to cross the roadway outside of the crosswalk, and moved into the path of the vehicle. Under such circumstances, defendants were entitled to summary dismissal" "The child's parents' affidavits which speculated that Molina was being untruthful about the speed of his vehicle, based upon the location of their daughter after the impact, or that he should have been able to stop in the two to three seconds after first observing the child, were insufficient to rebut defendants' entitlement to summary judgment."