A trial court erred in allowing a state trooper to testify about who was at fault in a collision between two motorcycles and a car, a Brooklyn appellate court has ruled.

A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, agreed “with the plaintiffs that the trooper’s testimony concerning the notations in his accident report regarding who was at fault in the happening of the accident constituted inadmissible hearsay.”

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