Citation Numbers: 183 A. 53, 320 Pa. 417
Judges: PER CURIAM, January 31, 1936:
Filed Date: 1/8/1936
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/13/2023
Appellant was nonsuited in the court below because his case presented the clearest kind of contributory negligence. We need not review the facts. We have examined the record and agree with this conclusion of the court below.
A driver approaching a street intersection who observes another car approaching on his right, does not *Page 418
discharge his duty by attempting to cross in the path of the oncoming car without again taking precautions against its obvious speed of approach. Having knowledge of this and of the other attending circumstances, he must govern himself accordingly: cf. Fearn v. City of Phila.,
In analagous circumstances we have held that the driver who commits himself to a crossing at an intersection in the face of a rapidly-approaching vehicle thereby tests an obvious danger, and comes under the duty of continuing his observation of the other vehicle so that he may thereafter avert the consequences of his own carelessness. Appellant's failure to do so renders him guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law: Alperdt v. Paige,
Judgment affirmed.
Alperdt Et Ux. v. Paige , 292 Pa. 1 ( 1927 )
Susa v. Consolidated Ice Company , 311 Pa. 150 ( 1933 )
Grande v. Wooleyhan Transp. Co. , 353 Pa. 535 ( 1945 )
Rosato v. Lament , 346 Pa. 360 ( 1943 )
Jaski v. W. Park Daily C. D. Inc. , 334 Pa. 12 ( 1939 )
Affelgren v. Kinka , 351 Pa. 99 ( 1944 )
Coventry v. Keith , 175 Pa. Super. 504 ( 1954 )
Zeigler v. Gullong , 168 Pa. Super. 637 ( 1951 )
Rosemiller v. Zucker , 133 Pa. Super. 216 ( 1938 )
Favino v. Myers , 164 Pa. Super. 445 ( 1949 )
Porreca v. N. Cleaners Dyers, Inc. , 146 Pa. Super. 504 ( 1941 )
Bell v. Dugan , 189 Pa. Super. 322 ( 1959 )
Dandridge v. Exhibitors Service Co. , 167 Pa. Super. 143 ( 1950 )