SKETCHES OF COURT: Jury finds negligence in New Year’s Eve crash but awards no damages
In this courtroom sketch, Hon. Gloria Dabiri listens as Manuel A. Romero conducts a direct examination in the motor vehicle accident trial Tarik Frelow v. Danny Leung, Carrie S. Jones, & Mahmoud T. Sadr. The summary jury trial took place last week in Kings County Civil Term.
Frelow was at the wheel of the first car in a three-vehicle collision that occurred the morning of New Year’s Eve in 2007 on the Belt Parkway near 77th Street in Bay Ridge. The second car in the chain was driven by defendant Sadr, represented by Adam D. Levine (seated, right) of the law firm James G. Bilello & Assoc. The third car was owned by defendant Leung and driven by defendant Jones, represented by John T. Morale (seated, center) of the law firm Richard T. Lau & Assoc.
There was a question of fact for the jury in the determination of liability, whether the plaintiff’s vehicle was impacted by the third car in the chain which struck and pushed the second car into the plaintiff’s car, or if the second car initially impacted the plaintiff’s car and was then struck by the third. The jury found 100 percent negligence against defendants Leung and Jones, of the third car in the chain.
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