Long v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 65 Pa. Super. 281
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 63

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street raihvay — Automobiles—Might angled collision — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>In an action by the owner of an automobile to recover damages ■for injuries to the automobile in a right angled collision between the defendant’s electric car and the motor car, the plaintiff cannot recover where it appears that the driver of the automobile approached a crossing at the rate of three or four miles per hour, that when at a sufficient distance from the track of the defendant to permit him to stop safely, he saw a street car approaching and slowing down to what is called a “safety stop,” that assuming that the car would stop, he drove ahead without waiting to see whether the car would in fact stop, with the result that a collision occurred in which the motor car was practically destroyed.</p>