Court Opinion

ID: 9562226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:24:01.194601+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:15.272317
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Felton, Chief Judge,
dissenting. The plaintiff in this case not only did not prove that an act of negligence of the driver of the defendant’s truck was the proximate cause of the injuries and damage, but the evidence showed conclusively that the plaintiff is barred from recovery by reason of her own negligence. The evidence indisputably shows that the plaintiff was attempting to pass the defendant’s truck on the left at an intersection as the truck driver was making a left turn into another street, following and next to the truck for approximately 150 feet. There was no evidence that the truck driver’s failure to give a left-turn *178signal was the proximate cause of the collision. The plaintiff testified that she pulled up; on the left side of the truck and almost to its cab before the collision; therefore, even if the truck driver had given or failed to give a left-turn signal by blinker light, it would not have influenced the plaintiff’s conduct. Besides, -the truck driver was the plaintiff’s witness, and he testified that he gave a left-turn signal by a blinker light before turning, and the plaintiff admitted that if he had done so while she was on his left and almost to the cab of the track, she could not have seen it. Furthermore, the plaintiff was violating the law in passing at an intersection and in so doing she was charged with the duty to anticipate that the truck driver would also violate the law by failing to give a left-turn signal. Anderson v. Williams, 95 Ga. App. 684 (3) (98 S. E. 2d 579); Ga. Power Co. v. Blum, 80 Ga. App. 618 (3b) (57 S. E. 2d 18).
There was no evidence that the truck driver looked into the rear-view mirror and ascertained that the plaintiff was about to pass him and could have thereafter avoided the collision. There was no evidence that the plaintiff blew her horn a sufficient distance behind the truck to give reasonable warning of her intention to pass before reaching the intersection.
I think that the motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict should have been sustained. The majority opinion merely assumes that the defendant was negligent. It does not point out what evidence in the case authorizes such an assumption.