Reid v. Reading Transit & Light Co.

Citations

• 66 Pa. Super. 101
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 202

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles — Headron collision with automobile o,nd car — Street railways.</p> <p>No damages can be recovered by the owner of an automobile from a street railway company for injuries to the automobile sustained in a head-on collision between the two vehicles, where it appears that at the time of the accident, plaintiff was driving between the car track and the curb line of a street on which the defendant operated a single line of cars; that immediately ahead of him were two other automobiles going in the same direction; that as these machines approached a cross-street they stopped; that the plaintiff instead of stopping, which he could have done, immediately turned his car and ran upon the street railway track in an attempt to get around the other two automobiles; that plaintiff could have seen the car before he entered upon the track if he had looked, and that when he was on the track the ear was within fifteen feet of him before he first applied the brake.</p>