Scheffel v. Williamsport Passenger Railway Co.

Citations

• 67 Pa. Super. 272
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 384

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles—Street railway — Collision between car and motor — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>The plaintiff, in an action against a street railway company to recover for injuries sustained to an automobile in a collision between the automobile and a street car, is not entitled to recover because of contributory negligence, where the evidence shows that at the time of the accident plaintiff and her daughter were riding ■ in thé automobile which was driven by the daughter who had no license; that to make a complete turn.on a street occupied by two tracks the car was turned into a side street and then backed into the main street until almost over the second track; that the motor was then stopped, the gear shifted, and then started forward entering ’upon the second track when it was immediately,struck by a street car; that when the motor was still hacking plaintiff saw the street car which struck her two hundred feet distant approaching at a high rate of speed; that the motor could have been turned on the side street without backing upon the street car tracks; and that after it had backed upon the track it could have been further backed a few feet into a position of safety.</p>