Nassau County Police reported that a hit-and-run driver in Bethpage struck two men riding on one bicycle Wednesday morning, killing one and seriously injuring the other.
The bicyclist was pronounced dead at a hospital at 7:20 a.m., an hour and 15 minutes after he was struck. The second victim was hospitalized in serious condition with internal injuries. Homicide detectives are searching for the driver of a white box truck that they think struck the bicycle as the two men headed south on Hicksville Road shortly after 6 a.m. The truck sustained damage in a front headlight area as a result of the collision, police said.
April 7, 2011
Fall on stairs
Recently, the courts decided a case where a theater-goer was injured after the lights had been turned off. The court held that A theater did not proximately cause injuries that a patron suffered from a fall from a stairs by suddenly turning the lights off before a performance. The strips of lights on the stairs were functioning, the patron of the theater should have expected that the lights in the theater would be turned off before the show began, common law authority did not prescribe a procedure of flashing or dimming lights before going off, and preventing house lights from being turned off until everyone was seated would have amounted to a prescription of conduct exceeding a duty of reasonable care.
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