FW: Four-year-old sued for bike accident

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Last updated 09:22 01/11/2010




TROUBLE: A New York City girl is being sued over a bicycle accident that happened when she was four years old.



    She might have been too young for grade school, but a judge says a New York City girl was old enough to be sued over a bicycle accident that happened when she was four years old.


      A Manhattan judge refused earlier this month to toss out negligence claims against Juliet Breitman.


      She, her mother and others are being sued by the estate of a woman who said she was severely hurt when hit by bicycles that Juliet and a boy were racing down a footpath in April 2009.


      The woman, Claire Menagh, died later that year.


      Juliet was three months shy of five.


      The judge says there's no evidence a child of that age couldn't appreciate ``the danger of riding a bicycle into an elderly woman''.