JOHNSON, TREVOR v. MURPHY, ALEXA L.JOHNSON, TREVOR v. MURPHY, ALEXA L.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action seeking damages for injuries he sustained when his bicycle collided with a motor vehicle driven by Corrine E. Murphy (defendant). Supreme Court properly granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment seeking dismissal of the complaint. Defendants established that plaintiff rode his bicycle from his driveway into the road without stopping, despite the fact that his view of oncoming traffic to his left was obstructed by a commercial truck parked next to his driveway. Defendants further established that defendant, who had the right-of-way, was traveling below the speed limit and did not see plaintiff until plaintiff collided with the passenger side of her vehicle, thus giving her no time to react. Defendants therefore established that plaintiff was the sole proximate cause of the accident, and plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact (see George v Cerat, 118 AD3d 1475, 1476 [2014]; Rosa v Scheiber, 89 AD3d 827, 828 [2011]; see generally Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]).
The court also properly denied plaintiff‘s cross motion seeking to compel defendants to provide discovery responses and for defendant “to appear at second party depositions.” As a preliminary matter, we note that although the cross motion was untimely, the court properly considered it to the extent that plaintiff argued that discovery was needed to oppose the motion (see