Court Opinion

ID: 9617479
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:56:20.108012+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:10.141792
License: Public Domain

Judge ARNOLD
dissenting.
I dissent from the majority’s conclusion that plaintiff’s allegations of enhanced injury against Thomas Built are sufficient to withstand a 12(b)(6) motion.
It is my opinion that the “first impact” is the critical and sole event of proximate causation in vehicular collision cases, and therefore actions for enhanced injuries are precluded. The initial impact of the truck with the bus was the cause, which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and independent cause, that produced plaintiff’s harm. See Hairston v. Alexander, 310 N.C. 227, 311 S.E. 2d 559 (1984).
I vote no error.