Court Opinion

ID: 9567129
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:49:10.016004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:59:57.071844
License: Public Domain

Judge HEDRICK
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I agree with the majority that the trial court erred in entering a judgment for the defendant notwithstanding the verdict; however, I also believe the trial court erred in not instructing the jury on the duty of a driver to determine if a safe movement could be made before turning his vehicle from a direct line of traf-*501fie. G.S. § 20454(a). The evidence, in my opinion, clearly requires such an instruction. While the evidence tends to show that defendant’s negligence was one of the proximate causes of the collision, the evidence also tends to show that plaintiff’s failure to see that her turn to the left could be done in safety was also a proximate cause of the collision.
I vote to remand the case to the superior court for a new trial on all issues.