Padilla-Lee v. City of Santa Barbara CA2/6
Lizette Padilla-Lee was crossing an intersection while pushing her infant daughter in a stroller. While in the intersection, she was struck by a pickup truck driven by Debbie Lux. Padilla-Lee, Timothy Lee, and their daughter, Lauren Lee, sued Richard and Beverly Mester (the Mesters) and the City of Santa Barbara (City) for premises liability and dangerous condition of public property. Padilla-Lee and her daughter (the Lees) appeal from judgment after orders granting motions for summary judgment in favor of the Mesters and the City. We affirm.
Undisputed evidence establishes that the condition of the City’s roadway and visual obstructions on the Mesters’ property near the intersection did not prevent Lux from seeing the pedestrians who were straight ahead of her in the crossing area.
We conclude the undisputed evidence does not support the opinions of the Lees’ experts. They opined that conditions to Lux’s right would have distracted her, caused her to accelerate at
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