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legalNEWS
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A state appeals court on Fri-
day revived a lawsuit by a golfer who suffered a
serious leg injury when he was hit by a cart driven
by another golfer.
Thomas McKeown claimed Philip Capavanni
shouldn’t have let his 82-year-old father-in-law
drive the cart because Capavanni should have
known the older man didn’t know how to operate
it.
Brian Robinson, a Scottish native visiting the U.S.,
said an object fell onto the floor of the cart while
he was driving toward a green and wedged under
the brake pedal, preventing him from stopping
before he ran into McKeown at Beaver Brook
Country Club in Annandale in 2015.
Capavanni saw McKeown’s leg was “split open”
and used his belt as a makeshift tourniquet, ac-
Court revives lawsuit
over runaway golf cart
injury
cording to Friday’s ruling.
A lower court judge had disagreed with McKe-
own’s contention that Capavanni acted negligent-
ly by allowing Robinson to operate the cart. The
judge concluded that the falling object was an
unforeseen event that should carry more weight
than Robinson’s unfamiliarity with driving golf
carts.
The appeals court disagreed, writing Friday that
“the placing of a loose item in a place in a vehicle
where it could interfere with the operator’s use of
the cart’s pedals seems reasonably foreseeable,”
and that the question was for a jury to decide.
A message seeking comment was left Friday with
an attorney representing Capavanni.
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