Have someone probably a few things that connect Manhattan with the name and you will get a variety of answers: tall buildings, traffic jams, beeping horns, and no doubt, double-parking. But a recent court ruling, New Yorkers might think twice after, before double parking their vehicles for the carriage of passengers or for a short stop at a supermarket.
a ruling of January 2008, the first division of the New York Supreme Court, the judge ruled in that doubleparked van that had been hit in the back, while his passenger was injured in March 2004, responsible for passenger boarding, even though the driver of the car that hit the van admitted to falling asleep at the wheel. The logic behind the decision that is the case of White vs. Diaz made that double parking lot of the traffic flow and a driver should logically assume that it creates a potential hazard to drivers or inattentive deflected hampered by double-clicking parking. The judge reasonedThat it is likely that when the driver of the van had been parked properly, the passenger would have suffered no harm to have.
The verdict in this case opens a legal Pandora's box because it brings the issue into the light of the proximate cause of liability. Proximate cause as the event that is defined as the cause of an injury. Typically, in rear-end collisions, the carelessness or negligence of the driver that the vehicle hits the back as the immediate cause of theInjury. While proximate cause is usually a jury, if the answer is not clear, decided, if we, the logic of the decision in the White vs. Diaz case, follow the liability in each collision with a double parked car on the driver of the placed that the vehicle is taken.
Thus New, Yorkers beware. While double car park space synonymous with the bustle of Manhattan think twice before you give into the temptation. If you are affected, it could ultimately cost you muchmore than a parking ticket.
