Court Opinion

ID: 9703819
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:09:14.853802+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:51.936149
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the decision of the majority to award a new trial. In my judgment, the trial court’s jury instruction on the sudden emergency doctrine was unnecessary and unwarranted. It would have been adequate to instruct the jury to determine whether Linden had exercised reasonable care in view of the circumstances with which he was confronted. I would also hold that it was error to permit Officer Vallone to express an opinion regarding the location of the impact when, as Officer Vallone conceded, her opin*167ion was based in part upon the extra-judicial statements of witnesses at the scene of the accident.
OLSZEWSKI, J., joins.