Killings-Rodriguez

BACKGROUND

On December 2, 2011, plaintiffs filed the operative second amended complaint against the City alleging a cause of action for dangerous condition of public property pursuant to section 835. According to the complaint, on November 2, 2010, about 7:20 p.m., Emely and Angela were crossing the street in a crosswalk at Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Archwood Street in Los Angeles when they were struck by a 1997 Jeep

1 All further statutory references are to the Government Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 Wrangler driven by defendant Ian Leiner.2 The accident killed Emely and rendered Angela a quadriplegic. At the time of the accident, Emely, then 10, and Angela, then 12, proceeded in a marked crosswalk to cross from the southeast corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard at Archwood Street to the southwest corner.3 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, running north and south, had two lanes of traffic in each direction. For southbound traffic, the pavement in each lane had an advance warning indicating “SLOW SCHOOL XING.” Two school crosswalk warning signs were at the crosswalk. The crosswalk itself was marked in a ladder pattern. As Emely and Angela proceeded in the crosswalk, three northbound…