Michael Anderson brought suit against Mary Ann Hite in the State Court of Fulton County, seeking to recover damages for injuries he sustained when the car Hite was driving hit him while he was riding a bicycle. The trial court granted Anderson’s motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of Hite’s liability. Hite appeals, contending jury issues remain on the issues of whether she was negligent and whether Anderson was contributorily negligent. For the following reasons, we reverse. “On appeal from the grant of summary judgment the appellate court conducts a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there is a genuine issue of material fact and whether the undisputed facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, warrant judgment as a matter of law.” Citation and punctuation omitted. Munroe v. Universal Health Services, Inc. , 277 Ga. 861, 864-865 2 596 SE2d 604 2004.
Viewed in the light most favorable to Hite, the record shows the following undisputed facts. The collision occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. on May 8, 2002, a clear day, on Cobb Parkway between Cumberland Boulevard and Paces Mill Road. At that point, Cobb Parkway has two lanes of travel in each direction and a central reversible turn lane. Hite was driving northbound on Cobb Parkway and stopped in the turn lane to turn left into a grocery store parking lot. Anderson was riding his bicycle southbound near the curb of the right lane. Before starting her turn, Hite looked for oncoming southbound traffic. Seeing none, she pulled across the southbound lanes. As she reached the parking lot entrance, she was “looking into the turn” and not at the southbound lanes of Cobb Parkway. Her car hit the side of Anderson’s bicycle as he crossed the parking lot entrance. Hite did not see Anderson on his bicycle until just prior to impact when he was no more than a few feet from her front bumper. Hite deposed that Anderson “came from nowhere.” She was not sure of her speed just before she saw Anderson’s bicycle, although she deposed that it was “not like she was swerving to miss traffic” and guessed she was going 15-20 miles per hour.
