Case Name: Bernadette Louise ANTHONY, a minor, and Willie L. Anthony, Jr., a minor, etc., Appellants, v. The JACKSONVILLE TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, etc. et al., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1980-03-25
Citations: 383 So. 2d 650
Docket Number: No. OO-491
Parties: Bernadette Louise ANTHONY, a minor, and Willie L. Anthony, Jr., a minor, etc., Appellants, v. The JACKSONVILLE TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, etc. et al., Appellees.
Judges: LARRY G. SMITH, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 383
Pages: 650–651

Head Matter:
Bernadette Louise ANTHONY, a minor, and Willie L. Anthony, Jr., a minor, etc., Appellants, v. The JACKSONVILLE TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, etc. et al., Appellees.
No. OO-491.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 25, 1980.
On Rehearing May 20, 1980.
Penland, McCranie & Shad, Jeffery B. Morris and C. Wayne Alford, of Sinoff & Alford, Jacksonville, for appellants.
James M. McLean, of Rogers, Towers, Bailey, Jones & Gay, William S. Burns, Jr. of Marks, Gray, Conroy & Gibbs, and Richard W. Kreidler, of Rice & Kreidler, Jacksonville, for appellees.

Opinion:
ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.
Appellants complain of the trial court's dismissing with prejudice their third amended complaint, which was appellants' second effort to aver ultimate facts showing a cause of action in the incident complained of. Suing the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, the City of Jacksonville, and Metropolitan Systems, Inc., which either operated a bus transportation system or placed benches at bus stops for the convenience of passengers, appellants alleged that the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Live Oak Drive was negligently chosen for a bus stop because of danger from "busy vehicular traffic at said intersection," and also that
the said bench [at that corner] was unreasonably close to busy vehicular traffic and posed an unreasonable risk of harm to those persons, including the plaintiffs, who would utilize said bench while await ing the arrival of buses at said bus stop
Plaintiffs were struck by an automobile while they sat on the bench awaiting a bus. The complaint, which is somewhat vague in this detail, was treated in argument as alleging that the bench was in a position near but not in the roadway and that the automobile left the road before striking plaintiffs. There is no allegation that, under particular circumstances which might have been but were not described in the complaint, this particular wayside was more than ordinarily vulnerable to runaway automobiles, or that conditions made it reasonably foreseeable that a vehicle would run off the road at or near the bus stop. See Newton v. Davis Transport & Rentals, Inc., 312 So.2d 200 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975); Nance v. James Archer Smith Hospital, Inc., 329 So.2d 377 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976), cert. den., 339 So.2d 1171 (Fla.1976); contrast Brinkley v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., 353 So.2d 593 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977), cert. den., 359 So.2d 1219 (Fla.1978). We agree with the trial judge that plaintiffs failed to allege ultimate facts tending to support the concluso-ry allegations that, under all the circumstances, this bench was placed or maintained in a position unreasonably close to the roadway, and that its placement contributed to plaintiffs' injury. Nothing in the record suggests that plaintiffs may by further amendment be able to cure the deficiencies in their third amended complaint. The judgment of dismissal is therefore -
AFFIRMED.
LARRY G. SMITH, J., concurs.
WENTWORTH, J., dissents with opinion.