Question

A taxi driver in Manhattan is sitting in his car passing time until someone needs a ride. Unbeknownst to the taxi driver, a man in a nearby alley is robbing two people. After the robber has completed the crime, he runs around the corner and jumps into the taxi. The robber tells the driver to floor it, and to emphasize his point, he puts a gun to the taxi driver's head. The driver puts the car in gear and takes off. Meanwhile, one of the robbery victims has followed the robber to the taxi and is running next to it to try to get in the cab. He is yelling something to the effect of, "Stop thief!" The taxi driver looks in the mirror and notices that the robber is looking at the victim chasing the taxi and figures it is his chance to hightail it!. The driver slams on the brakes and jumps out of the cab. When he slammed on the brakes, the robber in the car was injured; however, the taxi, without the driver, continued forward. The driverless taxi ran off the street and up onto the sidewalk where it struck a poor woman and her three children, injuring all three. The woman sued the taxi driver for their injuries resulting from the driver jumping out of a moving vehicle.

Please discuss the results of the action by the woman and her children against the taxi driver.

Answer 1

Yes the taxi driver was liable to the injuries for the poor woman and her children.

Explanation

1. However what may be happens in the car does not matter here. The car has hitted the poor women and her children and it is the case of accident.

2. In accident case the whole responsibility will be the person who was driving the car at that time.

3. The taxi driver was in driving position and he left the car and ran away due to some reason . But the car hitted the public and caused the injuries to the women and children if at all the driver does not ran away and applied brakes and stop the car there and then . The injuries may not be happen .

4. But the driver ran away from the car while the car was in movement and by that movement the car has made injuries to that people so the responsibility of injuries to the poor women and children is driver.

5. The driver can sue the robber on the basis that he ran away from the car due to driver was threaten by the robber but this does not have any connection to the case of injuries to poor women and children .

6. The driver has to bear the expenses for poor women and children for the cause of injuries made to them by his car.

7. For justice the driver can sue the robber but primarily driver has to pay to that poor women and children .

These are all the information regarding the given case.

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