Croxall

On August 12, 1927, at about 6 o’clock in the evening the plaintiff alighted from an eastbound street-car on the west side of Seventh and Spring Streets, in Los Angeles. At the time she started to alight she saw a truck just east of Broadway. She stepped off the car into a safety zone' plainly marked with paint and large metal traffic buttons, which zone was 6 feet wide and 102 feet long, extending westerly along the street-car track from just west of the pedestrian crosswalk connecting the west sidewalk of Spring Street. From the safety zone to the sidewalk it was 15 feet, 8 inches. As the plaintiff started for the sidewalk she glanced over her shoulder and saw the truck at about the alley between the two thoroughfares or about 100 feet away. As she testified “she thought” she “had plenty of time to make the curb in safety”. However, the truck, which was traveling about 30 miles an hour in the opinion of a witness just before the brakes were applied, and which after they were applied left skid marks about '25 or 35 feet- long and brushed the loose material away for another 4 or 5 feet, was unable to stop, but ran into-and injured her. The corner is one of the busy corners in Los…