Tyler v. Insurance Co. of North America

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that passenger who exited bus and was struck by motorcycle while walking to sidewalk remained “vehicle oriented” and was yet an “occupant” of bus
• holding that a passenger of a bus who was struck by a motorcycle as she was stepping off the bus was an occupant of the bus at the time of the accident
• holding that a passenger of a bus who was struck by a motorcycle as she was stepping off the bus was an occupant of the bus at the time of the accident
• holding a passenger who had exited a bus and was struck by a motorcycle while walking from the bus to the sidewalk remained “vehicle oriented” and thus was considered an “occupant” of the bus
• “The bus company had a duty, not only to carry [the plaintiff] safely, but to afford her an opportunity to alight safely.”
• appellant clearly entitled to benefits when injured upon alighting from a bus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).