Opinion
February 29, 1988
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Ruskin, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint insofar as it is asserted against the appellants and any cross claims against the appellants are dismissed.
The infant plaintiff, 15 years old at the time of the accident, suffers a loss of memory as one of its results. The plaintiff's loss of memory is by itself insufficient to defeat the appellants' motion for summary judgment (cf., Smith v Stark, 67 N.Y.2d 693). Although the appellants' public bus may have stood at an angle in the bus stop because of an illegally parked car, the record before us establishes that the infant plaintiff was struck by the defendants Polzers' vehicle after she safely alighted from the appellants' bus onto the sidewalk and then proceeded into a busy intersection. The appellants' duty to the infant plaintiff as a passenger terminated when she alighted safely on the curb (see, e.g., Mooney v Niagara Frontier Tr. Metro Sys., 125 A.D.2d 997; Rodriguez v Manhattan Bronx Surface Tr. Operating Auth., 117 A.D.2d 541, lv denied 68 N.Y.2d 602; Ortola v Bouvier, 110 A.D.2d 1077). There is no showing that the bus driver committed any acts or failed to perform any duty owed to the infant plaintiff which was a substantial factor in bringing about the accident. Therefore, the Supreme Court should have granted the appellants' motion. Mollen, P.J., Bracken, Spatt and Sullivan, JJ., concur.